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China is steeped in mercenary history like the Northern Han, the Arabs (Hui) and Americans like Homer Lea, Philo McGiffin, Francis Arthur "One Armed" Sutton, Sam "The Fighting Jew" Dreben, Claire Chennault and his CAMCO "Flying Tigers" and Canadian Morris "Two Gun" Cohen.
Prince a cranky trustfunder with zero combat experience, zero success in any military operation and history of catastrophic failure proposes that the United States of America emulate mercenary and charter company ethics in our foreign policy. justsecurity.org/44864/erik-pri…
Never forget that this country played the largest single role in destroying the colonial grip on the developing world. In exchange for the blood and sacrifice of our citizens we forced Britain and other nations to relinquish their rapacious strangleholds. politico.com/story/2017/08/…
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