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U.S. Army Opens Test Ranges To Private Companies For Weapons
U.S. Army Opens Test Ranges To Private Companies For Weapons August 10, 2026 Jessica Mathews / Associated Press / News@whmi.com CAMP GRAYLING, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Army said Friday that… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Private Air Defense for Businesses—Problems and How to Solve Them
Private Air Defense for Businesses—Problems and How to Solve Them 12 august, 2026, 11:00 A tower belonging to the private air defense company Carmine Sky, equipped with a Sky Sentinel… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Russia Allows Private Security Firms to Use Firearms to Counter Drone Attacks
Russia Allows Private Security Firms to Use Firearms to Counter Drone Attacks March 23, 2026 Alexander Reka / TASS President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing private security companies to… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
EXPANDING CAPABILITIES TO COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL CYBER-ENABLED CRIME
Presidential Actions EXPANDING CAPABILITIES TO COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL CYBER-ENABLED CRIME Presidential Memoranda August 12, 2026 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals
Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
SEAN McFATE
the return of private force to international affairs signals a broader shift away from the Westphalian state-monopoly-on-violence system toward something structurally closer to the overlapping, non-exclusive sovereignties of medieval Europe. Continue reading
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KATERI CARMOLA
Kateri Carmola is a political theorist whose principal scholarly contribution to the private military and security company (PMSC) literature is a single-authored monograph, one foundational journal article, and a small cluster of related chapters and reviews produced between roughly 2006 and 2014. Her work is theoretical and normative rather than empirical or investigative: she does not conduct company-level fieldwork so Continue reading
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Doubling Down: Russia’s Military Network in West Africa
As Russia doubles down on—and potentially expands—its military presence in the Sahel, Malian civilians continue to pay the price. Recent reports confirm increasing incidents of Africa Corps-perpetrated rape, torture, beheadings, mutilation, and summary executions, especially across northern Mali and the border with Mauritania. Continue reading
Ukraine’s intelligence identifies Filipino who died fighting for Russia
Ukrainian intelligence identified the eliminated soldier. He was 37-year-old Jeric Jumadil Undol, a native of the Manila metropolitan area. Continue reading
Africa Corps Work at Libyan Air Bases Raises Concerns
Russian work at six Libyan air bases shows that Moscow is expanding its military foothold in North Africa, while transferring weapons, mercenaries and other fighters to war zones. Continue reading