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The Carthaginians, under Hannibal, recruited locals to fight as mercenaries against Rome.
As for whether the rest of the film (in which a group of post-Cold War international mercenaries led by Robert De Niro pursues a mysterious suitcase around France) succeeds, that depends on the critic.
The nuclear gap between the two countries has widened in India's favor: "Pakistan's generals may not mind sacrificing a few hundred of their soldiers and Afghan mercenaries to Indian air strikes, but they are not going to expose their own cities to needless risk."
Peter Scott's recent Lost Crusade , the memoir of a U.S. soldier who trained Cambodian mercenaries, is the most affecting book of any sort I've read in a long time.
The island did not get directly involved in Greece’s Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, however it became well-known as a valuable source of brave and energetic mercenaries.