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Recent best-selling memoirs by former agents tell of colleagues who ran drugs and free-lanced as mercenaries . Mossad also brokered secret, dubiously legal, private arms sales to Central American regimes and South Africa's white government.
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."
A long article investigates Executive Outcomes, the firm of South African mercenaries hired to keep order in Sierra Leone.