Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    2. SADAT: Turkey’s Wagner Group
    3. We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
    4. GEO Group’s “Dark Money” Donation to a Group Tied to a Top Lawmaker
    5. The secret route of colombian fighters joining the RSF
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    Academic

    1. Guns for Hire, States in Ruin: An International Regulatory Framework to Combat the Exploitation of Weak States by Private Military Companie
    2. Unmanned Threats, Untapped Billions: Writing the Rulebook for the Next Massive Security Market
    3. The Meaning of Privatization
    4. Symposium on PMSCs: Revisiting the International Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies in the Digital Age
    5. Private Military Companies: Wagner Group as a Mode
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    Russia

    1. Britain imposes new sanctions against Russia over drones and migrant recruitment for war
    2. Foreign Mercenaries Hit by Russian Forces Near Kupyansk
    3. Wagner’s network of ex-soldiers marches in Murmansk
    4. Sri Lanka calls for compensation for mercenaries killed in Russia
    5. Armed guards have appeared on tankers belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet
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    Legal

    1. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    2. Uzbekistan Sentences Man for Foreign Mercenary Activity
    3. Four Defendants Convicted in Plot to Kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
    4. Scot mercenary who joined Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine facing terror charges after returning to UK
    5. High treason verdict: Belarusian mercenary for Russia sentenced to 7 years
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. The Meaning of Privatization
    2. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
    3. Capitalizing on wartime expertise: Ukraine weighs formation, export of for-profit military companies
    4. Mercenaries, Private Security, and the Civilian Cost of Outsourced Coercion
    5. ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons
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