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I've heard about some of these but I wonder how large they can actually get. There doesn't seem to be a large amount of recruits for them to draw on, Wagner already had to resort to convicts.

Kind of related, I was watching an interview with Simon Mann from Executive Outcomes and he said that they were quite lucky in that it was just the right time to make a PMC group, the Apathied Government had just collapsed so their were a lot of white South African soldiers looking for work. He said he would talk to SAS guys(Simon Mann used to be in the SAS) and they would complain and ask him why he didn't hire them instead and he would say it's because they would not do it, they would not be willing to come over there or do do the dangerous work that needed to be done.

I think that there probably actually aren't many 1st worlders who would fight in a real PMC(not just private security but actually fighting wars), Russia isn't first world but I think that still applies to a degree.