Russell’s Reviews > The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order > Status Update

Every page of this book is just "Mercenaries are necessary because they're better trained than some hypothetical farmer and they don't even commit atrocities that often because it would affect their profits. Also they make it easier for governments to wage unpopular wars since they don't have the same oversight" and on none of the pages are reasons why anyone would want this (unless you're the one being paid I guess)

this is the first book I've ever physically annotated because I feel the need to argue with the author as to the necessity of mercenaries on every page