Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. Global Strategic Group
    2. Explosive New Docs Reveal the 23-Man Kill List in Shocking Special Forces Mercenary Plot
    3. Who is Abraham Golan? Former IDF operative, US military veterans, accused of running mercenary ring in UAE, carrying out targeted killings at behest of…
    4. U.S. military veterans accused in lawsuit of acting as mercenaries for hire, carrying out war crimes
    5. Blackwater founder Erik Prince has joined the drone-warfare fray in Ukraine, SEC filings reveal
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    Academic

    1. The European Union’s use of contractors in security and defence blazing its own path of institutional change?
    2. The Afghanistan’s War Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security
    3. No Accounting for Bad Contracting Private Military and Security Contracts and Ineffective Regulation in Conflict Areas
    4. Status of Private Military Companies Personnel under IHL: Implications for Prosecuting Members of the Wagner Group in Ukraine
    5. Mercenaries on the Battlefield: What Legal Advisors Must Know
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    Russia

    1. Ukraine's intel­li­gence reveals Rus­sia’s real object­ives in Africa
    2. First Swiss mercenary killed in the war in Ukraine
    3. Russian Strikes Take Out German and British Combatants: Latin American Mercenaries Reinforce Frontlines
    4. Russian mercenaries in Mali have been accused of killing civilians
    5. Intelligence officers discover body of Nepali mercenary who fought on Russia's side in Donetsk region
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    Legal

    1. Indian court extends detention of Ukrainian and American mercenaries
    2. Explosive New Docs Reveal the 23-Man Kill List in Shocking Special Forces Mercenary Plot
    3. Who is Abraham Golan? Former IDF operative, US military veterans, accused of running mercenary ring in UAE, carrying out targeted killings at behest of…
    4. Kenia investigates and takes action; Cuba conceals: The mercenaries in Ukraine and the contrast of responses
    5. U.S. military veterans accused in lawsuit of acting as mercenaries for hire, carrying out war crimes
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Blackwater founder Erik Prince: Trump was ‘badly advised’ on Iran
    2. The European Union’s use of contractors in security and defence blazing its own path of institutional change?
    3. Private air defence takes off in Ukraine
    4. Estimating the total annual value of the private security contracting industry.
    5. The Afghanistan’s War Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security
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