{"id":86751,"date":"2026-03-29T03:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=86751"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:25:27","slug":"the-golden-era-of-african-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/the-golden-era-of-african-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Era of African Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!FVgG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafada27b-2e33-45d2-b35b-cedabfff7c33_1080x753.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">A Executive Outcomes PMC, holding an AKM and 60mm mortar, poised next to a Soviet AGS-17 Belt-Fed Grenade Launcher while in Angola, mid-1990&#8217;s.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Executive Outcomes PMC, holding an AKM and 60mm mortar, poised next to a Soviet AGS-17 Belt-Fed Grenade Launcher while in Angola, mid-1990&#8217;s. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2711,1303,475,10384,1898],"tags":[15948,218,8123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86753,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86751\/revisions\/86753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}