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    Companies

    1. Texas Plans Statewide Private Transport Network for ICE Detainees
    2. ICE asks contractors for 5,500 detention beds in four regions, gives industry a week to respond
    3. ICE extends no-bid contract for major detention center in Texas, rejecting calls for closure
    4. How a Montreal-based security firm stands to cash in on U.S. immigration crackdown
    5. SAS Veterans Suspected of Training Russian Soldiers for War in Ukraine — The Telegraph
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    Academic

    1. Professor Christopher Kinsey
    2. Priced but not Costed: The Empirical Status of Cost-Effectiveness Claims for Private Military and Security Companies
    3. Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap?
    4. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
    5. International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
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    Russia

    1. The Kremlin doubts the effectiveness of the “African Corps”: Russians are suffering casualties in Mali, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate
    2. Russian Forces Identify Foreign Mercenaries by Their SIM Cards
    3. The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Has Exposed a Scheme to Legalize and Recruit Foreign Mercenaries for the War Against Ukraine
    4. Russia plans to recruit at least 27 Yemenis for war against Ukraine
    5. 14 Pinoys ‘recruited’ by Russia for Ukraine war
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    Legal

    1. Following Radical Supreme Court Ruling, Appeals Court Strikes Down Historic Verdict Against U.S. Company Found Liable for Torture at Abu Ghraib
    2. Victory for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors: Appeals Court Upholds Historic $42 Million Verdict Against Private Contractor
    3. India Probe Links US Mercenary, 14 Ukrainians To Drone Attack In Myanmar
    4. The Matthew Vandyke Affair: How Western Drone Mercenaries Infiltrated India’s Borders—New Delhi Is Succumbing to US Pressure!
    5. NIA Says Terror Probe Against US ‘Mercenary’ Matthew VanDyke, 6 Ukrainians Is Not Over — Here’s What’s Going On
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. THE CORDILLERA PROTOCOL
    2. Professor Christopher Kinsey
    3. AI, Drones and Digital Surveillance, carry out cyber operations and support participation in conflict
    4. Priced but not Costed: The Empirical Status of Cost-Effectiveness Claims for Private Military and Security Companies
    5. NO RAIN IN ST. JAMES'S
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