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The aim of the Act was to stop mercenary activities by the dual actions of: preventing direct participation as a combatant in armed conflict for private gain including the training, recruitment and use of mercenaries; and, requiring approval of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee for offering of military assistance overseas. [20]
Executive Order 14183, titled "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness", is an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on January 27, 2025. It revokes Executive Order 14004, which allowed transgender people to serve in the military, stating that its policies reinforce military standards related to physical and mental fitness, unit cohesion, and mission effectiveness.
How will Trump's actions differ from past military deployments at the border? The administrations of George W. Bush and Obama sent thousands of National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in ...
The National Guard is deploying additional troops to the southern border to assist with President Trump’s directive for the military to help secure migration enforcement. In a Wednesday night ...
(a) Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; (b) Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and functions in the armed forces of that party;
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday related to the military that will ban "radical gender ideology" and DEI initiatives from all branches and their academies.
Several U.S. military branches are pausing training related to the prevention of sexual assault in order to comply with one of President Trump's executive orders related to diversity, equity and ...
The book details the rise of Blackwater USA, a private military company, and the growth of security contracting in the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism.In the book, Scahill contends that Blackwater exists as a mercenary force, and argues that Blackwater's rise is a consequence of the demobilization of the US military following the Cold War and its overextension in Iraq and Afghanistan.