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The Rise of Mercenaryism

N, you start the book by talking about how espionage, spying is one of the three oldest professions. Just remind us what the other two are. It's often referred to as one ofthe three oldes professions in the world,. The other two being pestitution and mercenarism. And they are commonalities, it is often set, o know, between the three. N, we think of mercenary we think of the dogs of war, hard bitten military types. But in some ways, actually is a journalist who chooses to write articles for pay to push a certain kind of line. I call it giggo politics.

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