Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. North Carolinian mercenaries hired recent advisor to Trump's UN ambassador while pressing for Board of Peace role
    2. Artan Training Center
    3. Private Military and Security Companies Across the Globe
    4. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    5. SADAT: Turkey’s Wagner Group
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    Academic

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

    1. Russia’s Treacherous Withdrawal And Mercenary Logic In Mali
    2. Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, Territorial Defense Eliminate Akhmat Unit Mercenaries in Sumy Region
    3. How it all went wrong for the Rus­si­ans in Mali
    4. warPeru is investigating Russia’s recruitment of citizens for war
    5. ‘Donetsk Court’ Sentences Georgian Fighter to 14 Years in Absentia on Mercenary Charges
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    Legal

    1. ‘Donetsk Court’ Sentences Georgian Fighter to 14 Years in Absentia on Mercenary Charges
    2. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    3. Uzbekistan Sentences Man for Foreign Mercenary Activity
    4. Four Defendants Convicted in Plot to Kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
    5. Scot mercenary who joined Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine facing terror charges after returning to UK
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    2. The Meaning of Privatization
    3. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
    4. Capitalizing on wartime expertise: Ukraine weighs formation, export of for-profit military companies
    5. Mercenaries, Private Security, and the Civilian Cost of Outsourced Coercion
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