Is there a term for soldiers without an oath?
Mercenaries?
Government Agents?
Is this not like the politically beholden Waffen SS of Nazi Germany?
They were the physical embodiment of Nazi terror and answerable only to Hitler.
The American military swears and oath to ‘’preserve the Constitution and swear allegiance to the same''. Incidentally the Waffen SS were combat troops organized into armored units. SS bastards none the less.
The Waffen SS were frontline soldiers who were often ineligible for service in the Wehrmacht (too young, not German, etc.); they had a different reputation than other branches of the SS who focused their wrath on civilians. Many weren’t allowed in the regular army; for example, the combat units raised in many of the occupied countries.