[quote @Yam I Am] mercenaries de jure replacing entire defense industries would, in all likelihood, cause a lot of backlash both inside the Military Industrial Complex as well as throughout the general public.[/quote]

Of course, it's not my intention to make a mercenary army that's omnipresent and somehow able to stand up to a first world country's military like it's often portrayed.

[quote @Yam I Am]However, there's nothing really stopping anyone from making an umbrella corporation and using plausible deniability throughout the defense industry proper to at least maintain some distance from "The Guys Who Made Your Hunting Shotgun" and "That Mercenary Group On CNN Who Pillaged The Iranian National Gallery Last Week".[/quote]

Yeah I thought this would be necessary in some form. Umbrella corporation it shall be then, plus I like the legality shenanigans and shady connections atmosphere. The only downside is that I'll have to come up with a lot of company names.

[quote @Yam I Am]With that in mind, it might be an interesting idea to have your PMC proper act as a sort of "army-for-hire" for less well-off/third-world countries[/quote]

Pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Army-for-hire is the perfect term, since it comes as its own combined arms force.

[quote @Yam I Am]do note that these are usually for private, individual ownership, much like how you buy a plot of land out in bumfuck Wisconsin so you can fulfil your lifelong dream of owning a chicken farm. You can technically avoid this by saying that this is owned by, say, the CFO or CEO of the umbrella corporation themselves, and they simply allow the operations of the company to happen on these islands, but keep in mind that both:


The person who owns the island is paying for any and all expenses out of their own pockets, and can't write them off as taxes for part of the company.
If shit does down on this island, the person who legally owns it is accountable for it, which is going to cause one hell of a legal headache for them if it's their company in question who committed the fuckup.[/quote]

Couldn't the land be owned separately from the business by an LLC? That way the land and the business going on on it are legally separated?