Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. US officials see closer ties with Trump ally Prince's security firm in Haiti, military adviser says
    2. Russia claims about 100 French private military contractors operate worldwide
    3. SADAT: Turkey’s Wagner Group
    4. Gazpromneft Security
    5. PMCs legally don't exist in Ukraine. They're booming anyway
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    Academic

    1. Soldiers of Fortune: A Historical Analysis of American Mercenary Employment
    2. Mercenaries in the eastern Mediterranean from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age
    3. A Global Brotherhood of Paramilitaries American Conservatives, Anticommunist Internationalism, and Covert Warfare in the Cold War
    4. The Black Eagle of Harlem
    5. Merchants of War: Mercenaries, Economy, and Society in the Late Sixteenth-Century Baltic
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    Russia

    1. Russia claims about 100 French private military contractors operate worldwide
    2. The former manager of the terminal that handled Prigozhin's plane was found dead in Moscow
    3. Africa Corps Adds Drones in Mali
    4. Russia Hoped Africa Corps Would Replicate Wagner's Success. It's Not Going Well.
    5. An estimated 200 Russian fighters attacked in Mali
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    Legal

    1. Two Russian men jailed in Angola for terrorism and spying
    2. An American sentenced to 20 years in prison for complicity in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
    3. Soy Milk, Pasta And A Prison Plea: US Mercenary Wins Food Relief In Tihar Jail
    4. Guns for Hire, States in Ruin: An International Regulatory Framework to Combat the Exploitation of Weak States by Private Military Companies
    5. Mercenary group linked to royal family accused of heinous war crime against California student
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. The Watchdog's Shadow
    2. America Will Be Renting An Army: Why the Iran Ground War Will Be Fought by Men Who Never Swore the Oath
    3. The Panel
    4. A Trio Triangulates
    5. We Live in the World Carlos the Jackal Made
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