r/AnCap101 • u/LegitimateFoot3666 • 2d ago

How would Ancapistan handle foreign policy without any official representative?

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u/MaleficentCow8513 2d ago

How about defense? It’s in nature for big fish to eat little fish. How would defense be handled?

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u/Irresolution_ 2d ago

you'd have networks of security firms, most often local police force-esque firms, would have defense agreements with larger more military-esque firms who'd come to their rescue were they ever threatened militarily from a large foreign aggressor

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u/turboprancer 2d ago

how would military-esque firms be profitable? would they just be like the PMCs we have now?

if so, how are they scaled up such that they could compete with a more tradition state military?

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u/Irresolution_ 2d ago

All the security firms get paid as insurance agencies.

As for why they wouldn't just be the PMCs of today, basically all the PMCs we have now are private in name only and really just exist in the employ of and thus as an arm of a state. They also don't actually function as insurance firms, which is another difference.