Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. Global Security Services Group (GSSG)
    2. Mercenaries and defectors abound in Sudan war
    3. Haitian authorities confirm Erik Prince-linked mercenaries took part in anti-gang raids
    4. The Business History of Erik Prince (2000–Present)
    5. International Services Agency (also known as the Academy for Security Instruction, or A4SI)
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    Academic

    1. OUTSOURCING VIOLENCE: PARA-INSTITUTIONAL COERCIVE ACTORS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ REGIONAL ACTIVISM
    2. Regulating the Modern Mercenary the Normative Bias against Mercenarism and Its Impact on Industry Regulation
    3. Understanding public blame attributions when private contractors are responsible for civilian casualties
    4. DANGERS FROM WITHIN WHY A FEDERAL STATUTE IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT MILITARY MEMBERS FROM CONTRACTOR NEGLIGENCE OUTSIDE OF COMBAT AND MILITARY CONTROL
    5. Russian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas Rehearsing Future Voyages
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    Russia

    1. From job offers to “meat assaults”: The deception of Russia’s foreign fighters
    2. Russia’s top source of foreign mercenaries for Ukraine war named
    3. “Hell’s Army”: New Film Tracks Russia’s Wagner Group & Rise of Mercenary Armies
    4. The story of Wagner Group, Russia's notorious mercenaries
    5. Russian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas Rehearsing Future Voyages
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    Legal

    1. DANGERS FROM WITHIN WHY A FEDERAL STATUTE IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT MILITARY MEMBERS FROM CONTRACTOR NEGLIGENCE OUTSIDE OF COMBAT AND MILITARY CONTROL
    2. State Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law by Private Security Companies in Africa: The Case of the Wagner Group and Africa Corps
    3. ‘Donetsk Court’ Sentences Georgian Fighter to 14 Years in Absentia on Mercenary Charges
    4. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    5. Uzbekistan Sentences Man for Foreign Mercenary Activity
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Projected Pelton PMSC Possibilities (PPPP): The Ghost of PMSC Future
    2. OUTSOURCING VIOLENCE: PARA-INSTITUTIONAL COERCIVE ACTORS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ REGIONAL ACTIVISM
    3. Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    4. The Meaning of Privatization
    5. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
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    Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire

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