Although Desperado technically broke several laws in their occupation in the country, they got away with their actions because of Abkhazia being a disputed territory within Georgia and not a sovereign nation, and that the UN were reluctant to get involved in Civil Wars due to the disastrous results of the Somalian Civil War in 1991. Desperado had apparently anticipated Raiden's arrival, setting up cyborg ambushes as well as an attempted assassination by LQ-84i at the old city. The occupational forces was led by Andrey Dolzaev (His primary arms supplier was Desperado), along with a Desperado captain Mistral, and were using a refinery along the coastline as their headquarters. Three weeks after their attack, Desperado led a military coup in Abkhazia where the president and most of the cabinet were killed and replaced by a military junta. As a consequence, Raiden started becoming more active in combat, aggressively taking missions from Maverick that directly related to Desperado's activities. Raiden ended up severely injured and failed to protect the PM. Desperado's leader, Sundowner, abducted the prime minister, and then killed him on board a train while an affiliate, Samuel Rodrigues, stalled Maverick PMSC member Raiden from rescuing him. In 2018, Desperado attacked a convoy escorting the Prime Minister of an African nation recovering from a costly civil war. World Marshal Incidents See also: Raid at World Marshal, Ambush in Africa, Abkhazian Coup, Investigation in Guadalajara, Raid in Denver, and Operation Tecumseh
Although several of them were ex-military, not all of them were, as evidenced by Monsoon's membership. Several of the PMC members were also forced to join due to being unable to provide a livelihood otherwise due to their cybernetic costs, some even holding deep fear and remorse for the actions they had to commit while in the group. However, they've also had connections to the drug trade and human trafficking. Their primary jobs were targeting places that were undergoing reconstruction efforts and ruin them. Kitts and Nevis (which was also a preferred tax haven of large companies across the world). Although they were based in Delaware, most of their business was handled outside of the States, with their financials being handled by a separate company located in St. Desperado Enforcement was known to be operating as early as 2016.