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Fostering Stability - Promoting Peace - Hire a Mercenary

posted January 30, 2009 - 3:55am
Fostering Stability - Promoting Peace - Hire a Mercenary

Greystone is an international security services company that offers your country or organization a complete solution to your most pressing security needs. We have the personnel, logistical support, equipment, and expertise to solve your most critical security problems.

It is more difficult than ever for an organization to successfully protect its interest against diverse and complicated threats in today’s grey world where the solutions to your security concerns are no longer black and white.

Greystone is dedicated to providing the best physical security assets from around the world in support of stability and peace. Our international focus enables us to develop unique and creative solutions to match each client’s individual needs. Customer satisfaction is our primary focus, and we deliver superior services with professionalism and flexibility.

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I love the language on these private security websites. The M-word is never mentioned, of course. One "unique and creative" solution is to destabilize countries and regimes. In the early hours of the Georgian fiasco Russian news reported captured and dead soldiers in black uniforms, one was even a black guy, and all fairly obviously from the Blackwater stable. This is another company, Greystone, based in the UK but same business just lower profile so far. Indeed, the UK has quite a few such companies, like Executive Solutions - great name!

History is only repeating itself. In the past it was expensive, as it is now, to have a professional standing army sitting around doing nothing and itching for a fight. So many kingdoms would employ mercenaries when needed. The problem with that was that they could never trust them absolutely. It just needed a higher bidder for them to switch sides. I wonder if that will ever happen today?

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Thanks a lot AAT2!

Thanks a lot AAT2! Considering they are a pretty secretive bunch it would have been funny having them sell their wares on here :-) Many things just don't change, they just look different. Join Xomba Here

Excellent Article - Thank You

This is an excellent article and not only because it was well written. I clicked through to read because its title was compelling, then - up until para 3 - I was transformed into a Victor Meldew (sp? - the charcater in One Foot in the Grave) thinking "I don't believe it! a mercenary promoting his company's unique selling points!" Then a sense of relief (it wasn't a mercenary). And then the interesting question to consider - all this from less than 300 words! I believe this is exactly what all internet readers want. As to the questions: Will History repeat itself? Will there be a case of a Mercenary Army switching sides? I hate cliches but concede that often they often have solid foundations. History does repeat itself - sometimes fortunately - e.g. in the case of WW1 and WW2 when poor military tactics led to fighting a war on two fronts and ultimately the defeat of Fascism. Sometimes unfortunately: in the conditions you describe, the chances of a Mercenary army switching sides for more money is highly probable.

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