A Bad Idea That I Need to Put Out Again
I was re-reading The Third World War: The Untold Story and the parts about the use of penal soldiers (literally, men taken directly from prison) as shock troops in meat-grinder campaigns, and thinking about how it can happen here.
The idea: a company that privately runs prisons for the government merges with a "defense contractor" which is actually a mercenary army. In order to foment a war to drum up business, they shanghai a number of hardened criminals from lock-up and send them, totally untrained and unsupported, in a raid on a nation like Cuba or North Korea or Iran where they are guaranteed to be killed when they arrive. Just a very sick version of Ten Little Indians.
The idea: a company that privately runs prisons for the government merges with a "defense contractor" which is actually a mercenary army. In order to foment a war to drum up business, they shanghai a number of hardened criminals from lock-up and send them, totally untrained and unsupported, in a raid on a nation like Cuba or North Korea or Iran where they are guaranteed to be killed when they arrive. Just a very sick version of Ten Little Indians.