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    Companies

    1. OFFICIAL BUSINESS: SECURITY COMPANIES AND AUTHORITIES AT SCAMMING COMPOUNDS IN CAMBODIA
    2. Cambodia to investigate private security firms over alleged links to scam compounds
    3. Cambodian Soldiers, Police Tied to Firms Guarding Abusive Scam Compounds, Amnesty Says
    4. $68.86M for Haiti Police Support and Logistics
    5. Former Fort Bragg contractor charged with leaking military secrets
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    Academic

    1. ERIK PRINCE AND PROJECT OPUS
    2. Auditing the Same War Twice: SIGIR and SIGAR Compared
    3. Privateers vs pirates or the formation of a public-private partnership for the establishment of a permanent device facing the pirate threat
    4. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, 1889–1965: Founders, organization, conquest, scandal, and the long afterlife of a corporation that governed
    5. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
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    Russia

    1. Russian security firms battle over Burkina Faso gold mine owned by billionaire Alexey Mordashov’s family amid $1 billion sale talks with another Russian miner
    2. Russia Tattoos ID Numbers on Foreign Mercenaries
    3. Sudan takes captured Ukrainian mercenaries to UN exposing covert front of war
    4. Indonesian police name suspects after 58 citizens lured to Russia to serve as mercenaries
    5. Russian Forces Using Mercenaries From Africa And Asia In Assaults On Huliaipole Front Military
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    Legal

    1. Indonesian police name suspects after 58 citizens lured to Russia to serve as mercenaries
    2. Belarusian Man to Be Tried in Absentia for Mercenary Activities
    3. Former Fort Bragg contractor charged with leaking military secrets
    4. $42M jury verdict against CACI overturned
    5. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. A private military company destroyed more than 60 aerial targets using automated turrets
    2. THE QUICK TRANSFERS: A Fable of Modern Procurement
    3. ERIK PRINCE AND PROJECT OPUS
    4. PMSC Watchlist & Intelligence Digest, Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
    5. Assembling a Force to Defeat Boko Haram: How Nigeria Integrated the Market into its Counterinsurgency Strategy
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