Biggest private army

>>34627571
private security are funded by government contracts. without government money, there is no military capability. that being said, blackwater during the height of the second iraq war was probably the largest, most capable private security company in modern history.

>>34627588
>blackwater
did it have its own jet fighterS?

>>34627571
In an absolute monarchy, the government is the private property of the king. Saudi Arabia is the largest extant absolute monarchy, so the Saudi military would have to be the world's largest private army.

>>34627607
is that so, like, he could do WHATEVER he wants with it and no one could say anythin?

>>34627613
It's an absolute monarchy. It's in the fucking name.

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>>34627596
they had some air capability, most notably a fleet of helicopters, a couple of cargo planes, and some light propeller planes.

>>34627588
>Blackwater
Eh, maybe. G4S is apparently bigger and Id argue EO or Mike Hoares Congo outfit were more capable since the former nah gunships and carte blanche; and the latter had a full equipped ex-Cuban fighter squadron.

>>34627571
If historical examples are accepted, the Dutch East Indies company (vereenigde Oostindische compagnie) was a private, stock exchange based entity they had a (calculated) net worth of over 4 trillion dollars at its peak. It sund as much ships around the cape as the rest of Europe combined, and had its own currency and military, and would be capable of taking on non-great power nations in Europe and many nations in the far east

>>34627613
Are you fucking retarded?
Are you literally in middle school?

>>34627699
>ccepted, the Dutch East Indies company (vereenigde Oostindische compagnie) was a private, stock exchange based entity they had a (calculated) net worth of over 4 trillion dollars at its peak. It sund as much ships around the cape as the rest
did it have fighter jets?

so we could safely conclude that there has never been a privately owned fighter jet, but there are privately owned spacecrafts

>>34627571
Pepsi.
They had a few CGNs, SSNs, and DDGs.

>>34627915
for realsies?

>>34627817
>did it have fighter jets?
before the invention of even the steam engine?

>>34627922
sorry i misread, would have been cool tough

What is the difference anyway between the goverment giving a load of money to a private company to have soldiers and the goverment having soldiers themselves?

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Definitely Pepsi.

>>34628163
What's this kike up to?

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>>34628598

>>34627571
Us

>>34627571
Fed Ex. They can transport men and materiel across the globe faster than most militaries, and sustain it via air resupply. They just need to add the guns and bombs part.

>>34628163

What the actual fuck?

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>>34628663
Pepsi is full of weird shit

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Aum Shinrikyo got a Mil Mi-17 helicopter and might of set off a nuke in Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station

>>34628646
That's going to cost extra due to hazmat fees

>>34628773

it just speculation, there no evidence of truth :)

>>34628773
>set off a nuke in Australia
nope. not possible, it's a nation state project even with access to uranus.

>>34627588
"In 2006, a car accident occurred in the Baghdad Green Zone when an SUV driven by Blackwater USA contractors crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee. "The colonel ... said the Blackwater guards disarmed the soldiers and forced them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle their vehicles."

So who are these guys?

>>34627926
Underage no doubt

>>34629033
Complete power-tripping fuckwits desu. Reading through that incidents section is like a laundry list of how to teach both your employers and the Iraqi people that you are a huge faggot and to please rape your face. At least from the perspective of the local population, the Fallujah ambush was totally justified.

"By 1803, at the height of its rule in India, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000 - twice the size of the British army." -Wikipedia
They had a navy too.

>>34627699
>>34627810
Summer is still in full swing I see

>>34627607
>>34627699
These are probably the best answers. Also a lot of the original american/Caribbean colonies were privately funded to begin with so they would've had their own armies and navies essentially.

>>34627817
How else would they maintain such a tight grip on the East

>>34627571
If you mean biggest according to scale for the time?
I would say east india company.

Biggest ever?
Good question. Probably the 'activists' during the america 'civil rights era'.
Soviet subversion is a hell of a drug.

>>34628773
>might of
Yeah, your dumb ass might've convinced me you were not smart enough to listen to,,,,

>>34627571
Seen her nudes yet? Just released, from 2014.

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>>34627613
Mediocre bait
1 (You)

>>34627607
Wouldn't it just be a normal army if its allegiance is to a sovereign, and not to a let's say a rich landowner or any private person?

>>34628163
>that time pepsi offered a harrier jet as a contest prize

>>34627699

I love the VoC, but I doubt it was a non-governmental organisation in the same manner as OP means it. The Dutch state still had some controle over it.

>>34628163
>disarming the USSR faster than you
Toppest kek

>>34627915
no, they only had the one Harrier jet

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>>34628163
Can't beat that fucker on the bantz

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>>34629033
Basically mall ninjas and rejected mall cops back in that era.
Nowadays it's hard to become one, but back in 2006 they were taking any fat fuck with a pulse and too low of an IQ to join the Army.

Remember Yeager?
That was his era.
Tapout shit, calf tattoo, monster energy drink flatbrim hat wearing mall-cops on a power trip.