Look at your mercenary operations, for instance.

American officials do not want their intervention in the Persian Gulf to be seen as a mercenary operation.

Buckingham, who previously made money from mercenary operations in Africa, is now the boss of Heritage Oil, which operates in Kurdistan and recently sealed a deal in Libya.

His organization hasn't handled a sizeable mercenary operation for years.

It seems likely that this was already in his mind at least in part a largely mercenary operation, aimed at gathering funds to finance a return to England.

After the war in summer 1849, Glanton and his gang were hired in a nominally mercenary operation by Mexican authorities, to track down and kill dangerous bands of Apache Indians in the Southwest.

"Is this some mercenary covert operation, Admiral?"

In exchange for full disclosure of their mercenary operations, the prisoners would be released.

But he would never reveal to her the extensive scope of his security, surveillance, and mercenary operations, or the fact that he had committed serious crimes in the name of the Jihad.

The novel The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth and the film (1981) with the same name, which go into some detail about an actual if fictionalized mercenary operation in Africa in the 1960s.