Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. Dorian Barak's resignation from Frontier Services Group board June 2024
    2. Erik Prince: Companies he founded or is Involved In
    3. Russia set to involve companies in air defence as drone threat grows
    4. Drone company backed by Erik Prince surges 500% in Wall Street debut
    5. The US Deportation Business Model Was Described By Its Own Director as Amazon Prime, But With Human Beings
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    Academic

    1. Private Military Companies: Wagner Group as a Mode
    2. Empire’s Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars
    3. Russia’s state capture strategy in Africa, from Wagner to the Africa corps
    4. Is the Sahel redefining its security? African agency, private military companies, and the changing face of security partnership
    5. The Unsettling Emergence of African Agency Through the Use of Russian Private Military Companies
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    Russia

    1. From Sports Festivals to the Front Line: Ukraine's Strategic Communications Center Documents How Russia's "Soft Power" Funnels Africans Into Its War
    2. LSE: Russia's African Recruitment Is Not an Anomaly - It Is What Happens When Migration Vulnerability Meets a State Willing to Exploit It
    3. Migration vulnerability and the political economy of combat recruitment
    4. "The Sky Crashed Down on Me": Two Bangladeshi Men Describe Being Tricked Into Fighting Russia's War in Ukraine
    5. Davor Savičić: Bosnian Serb Recruiter for the Wagner Group
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    Legal

    1. Ukraine's Security Service and intelligence gather evidence of war crimes by Serbian mercenary during occupation of Kyiv Oblast
    2. Ukraine Names Bosnian-Serb Fighter a Suspect in War Crime Probe
    3. SBU serves notice of suspicion to international mercenary of the Russian Federation who tortured civilians during the occupation of Kyiv region
    4. Court in Kashkadarya Sentences Man in Mercenary Case
    5. Private force in Africa
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
    2. Capitalizing on wartime expertise: Ukraine weighs formation, export of for-profit military companies
    3. Mercenaries, Private Security, and the Civilian Cost of Outsourced Coercion
    4. ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons
    5. Contractors in Every War: Why the U.S. Military Can’t Function Without Them
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