Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. Blackwater founder Erik Prince is Chairman of drone company Swarmer, which signed an MOU with drone company Powerus, which plans to merge with a firm backed by Trump sons Eric and Don Jr.
    2. Matthew VanDyke and Sons of Liberty International (SOLI)
    3. PMC Redut: A Detailed History
    4. New Jersey AG, Newark pursue legal action to get health inspectors into ICE facility
    5. New Jersey governor’s attempt to ‘lower the temperature’ is drawing heat instead
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    Academic

    1. Unmanned Threats, Untapped Billions: Writing the Rulebook for the Next Massive Security Market
    2. The Meaning of Privatization
    3. Symposium on PMSCs: Revisiting the International Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies in the Digital Age
    4. Private Military Companies: Wagner Group as a Mode
    5. Empire’s Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars
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    Russia

    1. Ukrainian police gather evidence against hundreds of foreign fighters serving Russia—one was caught trying to slip into the US from Mexico
    2. From Eelam War Heroes to Disposable Mercenaries: Sri Lankan Combatants Fighting in the Ukrainian War
    3. Phone of Spanish Mercenary Shakal Revealed Ukrainian Positions in Kharkov Region
    4. Russia’s Shadowy ‘Air Wagner’ Uses African Air Bases To Skirt Sanctions
    5. GUR: Russia recruited up to 15,000 Cubans for war against Ukraine
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    Legal

    1. High treason verdict: Belarusian mercenary for Russia sentenced to 7 years
    2. New Jersey AG, Newark pursue legal action to get health inspectors into ICE facility
    3. New Jersey Sues Delaney Hall Operator After It Refuses Full Access to Health Inspectors
    4. Ukraine's Security Service and intelligence gather evidence of war crimes by Serbian mercenary during occupation of Kyiv Oblast
    5. Ukraine Names Bosnian-Serb Fighter a Suspect in War Crime Probe
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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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