Post by guarddog on Jan 27, 2016 17:53:36 GMT
Scarlet Guard Security Corporation or SGSC is a tactical realism unit that is striving to understand and employ real life military tactics into our gaming, this doesn't in and of itself make us a competitive group but naturally as we learn and advance our knowledge of the traditional military approach to both infantry combat and beyond it will take our edge to a new level. At any moment when we approach a semi RP context SGSC is to be considered a PMSC which is a Private Military Security Company.
We're going to cross a broad line between what is player versus element and player versus player, using game types like wasteland and becti warfare between ZEUS oriented training simulations SGSC intends to produce an effective and organized group of players willing to enjoy ArmA together; this isn't by any means going to be as "professional" of an environment as other military simulation units. For all intents and purposes each person to join this group is still who they are; a civilian. In more serious games this simply becomes a civil sector contractor.
To my knowledge there has been nobody who attempted to create a tactical realism unit from the PMC angle before and we're going to strive to make this an interesting experience. Learning from newer members just as we teach what we can in return till a solid foundation and understanding of our consistent approach to virtual war fighting can be established.
Join me as we go into the darkest depths of modern warfare as mercenary.
Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared during the XIXth and XXth centuries, reappeared in the 1960’s during the decolonization period operating mainly in Africa and Asia. Under the United Nations a convention was adopted which outlaws and criminalizes their activities. Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions also contains a definition of mercenary.
A private military corporation (PMC), private military firm (PMF), or private military or security company, is a mercenary company or organisation providing armed or unarmed combat, combat support, security or security advisory services. PMCs refer to their staff as "security contractors" or "private military contractors". Private military companies refer to their business generally as the "private military industry" or "The Circuit". The hiring of mercenaries is a common practice in the history of armed conflict and prohibited in the modern age by the United Nations Mercenary Convention; the United Kingdom and United States are not signatories to the convention, and the United States has rejected the UN's classification of PMCs as mercenaries.
PMCs cloak themselves in the state governments "cloak of legitimacy."
It is often difficult to tell national troops from private security contractors, or national support personnel from supply and support contractors. The obfuscation between private and public actors allows for the responsibility of criminal actions to be placed on the private firm, while allowing the state to achieve its foreign policy goals.
So as you can see, modern mercenary fight in corporations which retain a startling lack of transparency and accountability while working for more than a single government, in addition sub contracting work to others without needing to much elaborate or answer to anyone but those providing them money. For all intents and purposes mercenary can be even more effective subverting global laws than special operations will ever be. For this reason such "civilians" have been brought back to the battlefield. The west is willing to shit all over international law in order to proceed with this agenda.
Many private military contractors are in fact retired soldiers with military occupational specialty, some of the leaders of these organizations even desire to be called by their old ranks such as "Major" or "Colonel" but the contractors deny such ranks, referencing themselves as "privates" in a return quip, which is to say privateers. They owe no man above him rank and acknowledge only the command of the program directors sending them on these assignments and managing said privateers.
The future of war is left not only in the hands of organized groups of soldiers but in the hands of men who wage conflict to fill their pockets as privateers, there is no end to this business in sight, and it has been defended by nations such as America who deny that these contractors are even true mercenary.
Mercenary don't just fight battles, they protect executives, torture people, traffic humans, PMC are even tied to guarding secretive central intelligence agency raids. In other words there is no limit to what these men will do for money in support of the state. After all it is possible to conduct PMC operations as a fraction of the cost of a NATO operation, the potential of their use as a vicarious asset is obvious to anyone who can see why these multitude of services have extended far beyond protection and intelligence into the realm of true war fighting.
PMCs cloak themselves in the state governments "cloak of legitimacy."
It is often difficult to tell national troops from private security contractors, or national support personnel from supply and support contractors. The obfuscation between private and public actors allows for the responsibility of criminal actions to be placed on the private firm, while allowing the state to achieve its foreign policy goals.
So as you can see, modern mercenary fight in corporations which retain a startling lack of transparency and accountability while working for more than a single government, in addition sub contracting work to others without needing to much elaborate or answer to anyone but those providing them money. For all intents and purposes mercenary can be even more effective subverting global laws than special operations will ever be. For this reason such "civilians" have been brought back to the battlefield. The west is willing to shit all over international law in order to proceed with this agenda.
Many private military contractors are in fact retired soldiers with military occupational specialty, some of the leaders of these organizations even desire to be called by their old ranks such as "Major" or "Colonel" but the contractors deny such ranks, referencing themselves as "privates" in a return quip, which is to say privateers. They owe no man above him rank and acknowledge only the command of the program directors sending them on these assignments and managing said privateers.
The future of war is left not only in the hands of organized groups of soldiers but in the hands of men who wage conflict to fill their pockets as privateers, there is no end to this business in sight, and it has been defended by nations such as America who deny that these contractors are even true mercenary.
Mercenary don't just fight battles, they protect executives, torture people, traffic humans, PMC are even tied to guarding secretive central intelligence agency raids. In other words there is no limit to what these men will do for money in support of the state. After all it is possible to conduct PMC operations as a fraction of the cost of a NATO operation, the potential of their use as a vicarious asset is obvious to anyone who can see why these multitude of services have extended far beyond protection and intelligence into the realm of true war fighting.
Welcome to Scarlet Guard Security Corporation