This blog runs on a subscription basis. That means you have to pay an annual fee to access the blog. The fee you pay goes only to help defray some, but not all, of the costs of maintaining this site. The good news is that it is only $25 a year. Once you subscribe you will NOT, unlike virtually every blog and Substack site, get continual pleas asking you to chip in money for support. Once and done, as the saying goes.
Why subscribe?
First, I, David Isenberg, have been following the world of Private Military and Security Contracting (PMSC) dating back to the late 1980s.
There are few people out there who have been following it as long and as consistently as I have. I was writing about it in its earliest years, reporting on the like of Executive Outcomes operating in Angola and Sierra Leone.
Second, you will find information here you simply won’t find elsewhere. This a curated site, meaning I spend a great deal of time searching databases you don’t have access to. I do not just type security contractors or private military companies into a search engine and paste the first ten results. You are getting the benefit of deep information gathering dives, as well as the results of decades of experience in knowing where to look. In short, I know where the PMSC bones are buried. You can search elsewhere but you won’t find in one place all the information that is here.
Finally, you are getting incredible value. As noted above, the subscription fee at only $25.00. Why is this a bargain? For that amount you get about thousands of articles per year, plus access to all the other articles in the archives, which are continually being updated. If that is not value for your money there is no such thing.
