History MultinationalTeam / RealLife

* It's hard to get more multinational than the [[LegionOfLostSouls French Foreign Legion]]. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion More here]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.)

* Thanks to modern remote collaboration technologies, present day megacorporations can very easily develop projects staffed by an American manager, a Canadian team leader, three Mexican specialists in one area, a Hungarian specialist in another area, two Romanian specialists in another area, a liaison with the Singapore office, an occasional consultant in Philippines, two Chinese supervisors, three backup supervisors in India, and a British, a French and a German stakeholder. Developing an internal corporate culture that is agnostic to all these widely diverse cultures is critical to ensure that all these widely diverse people from so many different backgrounds can coexist and collaborate together towards a single goal.

* Thanks to modern remote collaboration technologies, present day megacorporations can very easily develop projects staffed by an American manager, a Canadian team leader, three Mexican specialists in one area, a Hungarian specialist in another area, two Romanian specialists in another area, a liaison with the Singapore office, an occasional consultant in Philippines, two Chinese supervisors and three backup supervisors in India. Developing an internal corporate culture that is agnostic to all these widely diverse cultures is critical to ensure that all these widely diverse people from so many different backgrounds can coexist and collaborate together towards a single goal.

** The British Eighth Army had British, Scottish, South African, Australian, Indian and New Zealand divisions, and smaller units of Free French, Czechs, Greeks and Poles.

* In the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar the Prussian army and its allies (Great Britain and a few small German states) faced the armies of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, Saxony, several smaller German states and of the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire. That last one was in itself a microcosm of contingents supplied by the middling-to-minute principalities etc. of the Empire, each of which was a sovereign nation at the time.

* The 15th Army Group in the Italian Campaign is up there with the 14th Army as one of the most diverse military formations of World War II. To give a brief summary, on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Army_Group August 1944]] the 15th Army Group consisted of (among many smaller formations): 6 British divisions (+3 brigades), 6 American divisions,[[note]]Which were quite diverse themselves. In addition to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_the_US_armed_forces_during_World_War_II#White_minority_participation the large number of second-generation "white ethnics"]], the American forces included the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) 442nd Infantry Regiment]], the most highly-decorated American infantry regiment in history (composed mainly of second-generation Japanese-Americans).[[/note]] 4 Italian divisions (with most fighting being done by allied Italian partisans, who were on the side of the Allies and mainly ex-Italian military), 3 Indian divisions, 2 Polish divisions (+1 brigade), 2 Canadian divisions, 1 New Zealander division, 1 South African division, 1 Brazilian division, 1 Greek brigade, and 1 Palestinian Jewish brigade. There were [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Expeditionary_Corps_(1943%E2%80%9344) also]] 2 Moroccan divisions, 1 French division, and 1 Algerian division, but they were withdrawn by August 1944. Adding to the fun, the Axis Army Group C was mostly German, but also included fascist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Civil_War
Italians]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Army_(Bohemia_and_Moravia)#Operations Czechs]].[[note]]Though both these groups were considered largely unfit for frontline combat and thus mostly kept in non-combat roles like constructing and maintaining lines of supply and communication.[[/note]] Nowhere else in the war could you find specific odd team-ups such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Collecchio Brazilians and Italians]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bologna Poles and South Africans]].

* The 1991 Gulf War coalition, besides the US, Saudi Arabia and the UK, included over 20 other countries. Likewise, the 2003-2009 US/British-led Multinational Force in Iraq included around 40 countries during it's existence.

* The so-called "Islamic State" terrorist organzation and former unrecognized proto-state was infamous for a big chunk of their forces being foreign volunteers from all around the whole world to fight in the northern Middle Easy. Due to presenting itself as an "worldwide caliphate" uniting its members in faith rather than concepts patriotism or nationalism, it succeeded into radicalizing even Westerners into joining their group. Roughly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_activity_of_ISIL#List_of_nationalities_of_foreign_fighters_in_ISIL 32,000]] foreign fighters joined the group's main branch, along with several tens of thousands of Iraqis and Syrians native to the area; the foreign recruits included Chechens, Tunisians, Saudis, Uzbeks, and Jordanians, among others. There were so many of them that anti-IS Syrian and Iraqi forces occasionally stated they weren't fighting a local threat anymore, but actually an ''ocuppying force''.[[note]]Though this is an exaggeration: going by ISIL's confirmed losses they were only about one third non-Syrian/Iraqi, at best. It was truer for the Syrians; few foreign fighters went to Iraq.[[/note]] On top of this, tons of Afghans (Pashtuns), Filipinos (Moros), Libyans, and Egyptians joined the various local Islamic State affiliates in ''their'' countries rather than traveling to fight with the main branch in Syria and Iraq.

* The so-called "Islamic State" terrorist organzation was infamous for a large bulk of their forces being foreign volunteers from all around the whole world to fight in the conflict in Iraq and Syria. Due to presenting itself as an "worldwide caliphate" uniting its members in faith rather than concepts patriotism or nationalism, it succeeded into radicalizing even Westerners into joining their group. There were so many of them that anti-IS Syrian and Iraqi forces stated they weren't fighting a local threat anymore, but actually an ''ocuppying force''.