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- Here and There with Dave Marash, February 3, 2015
- Sep. 2, 2014 Al Jazeera English segment on Blackwater trial - Comment by David Isenberg
- Jan 2, 2010, Al Jazzeera (English), re Judge Urbina’s dismissal of charges against Blackwater contractors
- June 28, 2010. heard in “Controversy over CIA Blackwater contract,” The World
- August 17, 2010, on C-Span III, speaks on private military contracting
- Examining the role of the military contractor
- Has the Privatization of National Security Gone Too Far? The Future of Military Contracting, November 14, 2008, 9:30-11:00am, New America Foundation
- David Isenberg on PressTV - US contractor with poor ratings hired again
- Outsourcing War and Peace – Video
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Author Archives: David Isenberg
Colombian Militias Send Personnel to Ukraine to Gain Valuable Drone Warfare Experience
Illegal armed groups in Colombia have reportedly been sending combat personnel to Ukraine to acquire battlefield experience with drones, potentially allowing them to return home with knowledge that could be used against local security forces. Continue reading
Foreign Mercenaries Reportedly Stationed at Children’s Camp in Lvov Region
Foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian special forces weapons are reportedly being housed at an operating children’s camp in Russia’s Lvov Region Continue reading
THE BRUSSELS GAMBIT
Somewhere on a tablet in her deputy’s coat pocket, unread until the car, a routine notice was already waiting: a Gulf-registered subsidiary of a Texas-headquartered firm had that afternoon signed a contract to field an autonomous perimeter network for a private consortium operating in the South China Sea. The market, whatever the communiqué said, was not waiting for Brussels to catch up to it. It never had. Continue reading
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THE ARCHIVE OF LOST MONOPOLIES
“My grandmother was born in 1998,” Ilse said. “She lived to see the transition. She told me that in her youth, the idea of a private soldier was still slightly scandalous. Mercenaries belonged to failed states and colonial wars. They were ‘dogs of war,’ and the phrase was an insult. By the time she died in 2081, the scandal had inverted. It was the state soldier who seemed anachronistic. Quaint. Inefficient. Why pay for a standing army when the Consortium, or Apex Global, or the Praetorian Cooperative could provide better rates, no pension obligations, and no flag-draped coffins? She said the last time she saw a uniformed national soldier was 2069, at a heritage parade. He looked like a reenactor.” Continue reading
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DeWe Security Service Group
DeWe Security Service Group (德威国际安保集团, DWSS) is a Chinese overseas private-security enterprise founded in 2011 in Beijing. Its founding and controlling figure is Li Xiaopeng (李晓鹏), a former Chinese public-security official who assembled a team drawn substantially from personnel who had worked security for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. DWSS built a business protecting Chinese state-owned enterprises, Belt and Road Initiative projects, and Chinese diplomatic and commercial interests operating in high-risk overseas environments, principally across Africa. Continue reading
Union Sues TSA Over Secret Plan to Privatize Security
The American Federation of Government Employees says the Trump administration hid its plan to turn airport security over to private companies like Palantir. Continue reading
Colombian Cartels Deploy Ukraine-Acquired Drone Tactics
multiple cases are found where local drug cartel members apply as Ukrainian mercenaries to learn combat techniques using drones Continue reading
DOGS OF WAR: Russia’s corporate warriors in armed conflicts
DOGS OF WAR: Russia’s corporate warriors in armed conflicts Andreas Heinmann-Grṻder European Union Institute for Security Studies (2023) You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
Establishing a multinational walking blood bank in Haiti operational, regulatory, and cultural lessons from the MSSM mission
Establishing a multinational walking blood bank in Haiti operational, regulatory, and cultural lessons from the MSSM mission European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery Ricardo A Jacquez 1 , Albert J Gimpelson … You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
PRECISION LOGISTICS AS A STRATEGIC ENABLER LESSONS FROM THE PAST, DEMANDS FOR THE FUTURE
PRECISION LOGISTICS AS A STRATEGIC ENABLER LESSONS FROM THE PAST, DEMANDS FOR THE FUTURE Scientific Bulletin Vol. XXX, No. 1(59), 2025 Daniela-Elena Hrab “Carol I” National Defense University, Bucharest Romania You must be logged in to view this content. Click … Continue reading