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Bulgarians’ Motivation for Participation in Private Military Companies [PDF]

Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics, 2023
Private military companies are becoming increasingly popular; their manpower is higher than the manpower of some national armies. Nevertheless, they still exist in the shadows and are often called “shadow armies”.
Hristo Tutunarov
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PRIVATIZATION OF SECURITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY. FROM MERCENARIES TO PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2018
The present paper aims to emphasize the context of the privatization of security in the 20th century and to show the differences between these newly created corporations and the old mercenaries.
Ramona Ioana GOGA
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Szlachetni, odważni, dzicy? Obraz Waregów i Franków w oczach Bizantyńczyków w X-XI w.

Vox Patrum, 2018
During Xth and XIth century the Byzantine Empire was one of the strongest states in the Levant. In mentioned period the emperors undertook numerous mili­tary campaigns, both in order to expand the borders of the empire and restitute their authority on ...
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Alkaios on the role of Mytilenian aristocracy in the economic life during stasis

RUDN Journal of World History, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evidence concerning different activities of aristocracy and if possible to define its role in the economic life during a very specific period in the history of archaic Mytilene, i.e. stasis.
Yelena Ivanovna Solomatina
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Žold a ztráta: císař (si) vyřizuje účty : úvahy o dvou rozhodčích procesech mezi císařem Fridrichem III. a veliteli žoldnéřů v době uherské války

Studia Historica Brunensia, 2020
The arbitration proceedings that took place in 1482 represent the lowest point in the relationships between Frederick III and two of his most important mercenary captains at the time.
Petra Heinicker
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Zpísemnění válečné každodennosti : písemnosti rakouských žoldnéřů, působících ve Znojmě a Jihlavě za husitské revoluce

Studia Historica Brunensia, 2020
The present paper uses two case studies to scrutinize the many different documents emanating from the administrative needs of late medieval mercenaries and their employers.
Petr Elbel
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Governmental Combat of Migration Between Competing Terrorist Organisations

Operations Research and Decisions, 2020
Each terrorist organisation is modelled with four coupled differential time equations for the evolution of ideologues, criminal mercenaries, captive participants, and capital sponsoring.
Kjell Hausken
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The Activity of Mercenaries in the State of Mali – a Negative Factor on Regional and International Security

EIRP Proceedings, 2022
The activity of mercenaries is an illegal act that most states of the world have known with regret. In recent times, military clashes on the continent of Africa have not been an exception in the sense of not knowing what they represent and how ...
Igor Soroceanu
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Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus

Studia Ceranea, 2014
The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first, most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Paolo Solaroli di Briona. Un sarto novarese tra India e Risorgimento

Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021
The eighteenth century saw a fragmentation of Mughal power, the last, recognized Indian heads of the old order. A rapid political revolution followed, wars of succession, murder and usurpation, dismemberment of the empire, and rise of petty chiefs to ...
Tommaso Vialardi di Sandigliano
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