Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. Matthew VanDyke and Sons of Liberty International (SOLI)
    2. PMC Redut: A Detailed History
    3. New Jersey AG, Newark pursue legal action to get health inspectors into ICE facility
    4. New Jersey governor’s attempt to ‘lower the temperature’ is drawing heat instead
    5. New Jersey Sues Delaney Hall Operator After It Refuses Full Access to Health Inspectors
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    Academic

    1. Private Military Companies: Wagner Group as a Mode
    2. Empire’s Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars
    3. Russia’s state capture strategy in Africa, from Wagner to the Africa corps
    4. Is the Sahel redefining its security? African agency, private military companies, and the changing face of security partnership
    5. The Unsettling Emergence of African Agency Through the Use of Russian Private Military Companies
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    Russia

    1. GUR: Russia recruited up to 15,000 Cubans for war against Ukraine
    2. Up to 15,000 Cubans: Ukraine Reveals Scale of Russia’s Foreign Recruitment
    3. Russia recruited up to 15,000 Cubans to fight against Ukraine
    4. Writings on Russian PMCs
    5. PMC Redut: A Detailed History
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    Legal

    1. High treason verdict: Belarusian mercenary for Russia sentenced to 7 years
    2. New Jersey AG, Newark pursue legal action to get health inspectors into ICE facility
    3. New Jersey Sues Delaney Hall Operator After It Refuses Full Access to Health Inspectors
    4. Ukraine's Security Service and intelligence gather evidence of war crimes by Serbian mercenary during occupation of Kyiv Oblast
    5. Ukraine Names Bosnian-Serb Fighter a Suspect in War Crime Probe
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
    2. Capitalizing on wartime expertise: Ukraine weighs formation, export of for-profit military companies
    3. Mercenaries, Private Security, and the Civilian Cost of Outsourced Coercion
    4. ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons
    5. Contractors in Every War: Why the U.S. Military Can’t Function Without Them
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