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The Philippines’ Security Trap

Ever since the failure of postwar industrialization, the Philippine has built one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated labor-export systems. Recruiters, overseas employment networks, remittance channels and millions of…

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    Companies

    1. Swarmer Takes 20% Stake in Vectus Air Defense
    2. Exclusive: Vectus, led by Erik Prince, pitches air defense as a service
    3. Wagner Group: Russian mercenary group
    4. Ossoff calls for answers from private military housing developer, continues investigations
    5. Criminal links of South Africa’s private security companies also require scrutiny
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    1. Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap?
    2. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
    3. International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
    4. THE DORSAI CONTRACT
    5. JOVANA JEZDIMIROVIC RANITO
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    1. Russia finds new source of 'cannon fodder' on Indonesian islands, intelligence says
    2. Brit fighting for Russia killed in Donetsk
    3. Tale of Wag­ner mer­cen­ary looks to Dosto­evsky at fest­ival launch
    4. Andijan Court Sentences Uzbek Citizen for Mercenary Activity
    5. Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes
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    Legal

    1. Andijan Court Sentences Uzbek Citizen for Mercenary Activity
    2. Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes
    3. Criminal links of South Africa’s private security companies also require scrutiny
    4. A mercenary from the UK was sentenced in Moscow
    5. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. The Philippines’ Security Trap
    2. THE MOUTAI ANALYSIS
    3. The US Army is overhauling how it trains its new helicopter pilots to fly, outsourcing training to a private company
    4. Military to begin two-phase program outsourcing security
    5. Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes
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