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    1. Former Fort Bragg contractor charged with leaking military secrets
    2. ERIK PRINCE AND PROJECT OPUS
    3. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, 1889–1965: Founders, organization, conquest, scandal, and the long afterlife of a corporation that governed
    4. The Congo as a Site of Capital Accumulation: Erik Prince and the Privatization of War
    5. Mike Rogers’s Wife Raked in Lucrative Government Security Contracts While Rogers Served as Intel Chair
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    Academic

    1. ERIK PRINCE AND PROJECT OPUS
    2. Auditing the Same War Twice: SIGIR and SIGAR Compared
    3. Privateers vs pirates or the formation of a public-private partnership for the establishment of a permanent device facing the pirate threat
    4. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, 1889–1965: Founders, organization, conquest, scandal, and the long afterlife of a corporation that governed
    5. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
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    1. Russian Forces Using Mercenaries From Africa And Asia In Assaults On Huliaipole Front Military
    2. Russian forces using mercenaries form Africa and Asia in assaults on Huliaipole front – military
    3. Putin seeks to expand ties with African countries at Russia-Africa summit
    4. Russia–Africa Summit: Moscow is engaging more with Africa, but its delivery is limited
    5. A mercenary from Botswana was killed fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine
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    Legal

    1. Former Fort Bragg contractor charged with leaking military secrets
    2. $42M jury verdict against CACI overturned
    3. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
    4. Scots mercenary hailed a hero for fighting for Ukraine ordered to serve 14 years in jail by Putin’s Russian penal colony
    5. US mercenary VanDyke returns to India, Delhi court allows longer stay abroad
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. THE QUICK TRANSFERS: A Fable of Modern Procurement
    2. ERIK PRINCE AND PROJECT OPUS
    3. PMSC Watchlist & Intelligence Digest, Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
    4. Assembling a Force to Defeat Boko Haram: How Nigeria Integrated the Market into its Counterinsurgency Strategy
    5. WAR ON TERROR AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF FORCE a first analysis of the use of private companies in the U.S. military interventions after September Eleven (2001-2011)
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