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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
How Russia is luring foreign nationals to fight in Ukraine More and more, Russia is recruiting men from the w
How Russia is luring foreign nationals to fight in Ukraine More and more, Russia is recruiting men from the world’s poorest countries to send them to the front in the Ukraine… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Russia denies using Colombian mercenaries in Ukraine war
Russia’s embassy in Colombia issued a denial Wednesday of a report that it had ties to suspected recruitment networks of Colombian mercenaries to aid its war in Ukraine. Continue reading
Large Numbers of Polish Combat Personnel Identified on Ukrainian Frontlines
Large Numbers of Polish Combat Personnel Identified on Ukrainian Frontlines Continue reading
Switzerland investigates 24 citizens suspected of participating in the conflict in Ukraine
Switzerland investigates 24 citizens suspected of participating in the conflict in Ukraine Châu Anh – 10:13, Wed Aug 05, 2026 (GMT+7) Swiss authorities have opened 24 investigations related to… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Ticket Out: A Serbian’s Journey from Mercenary in Ukraine to Gangland Hitman
Ticket Out: A Serbian’s Journey from Mercenary in Ukraine to Gangland Hitman Illustration: Igor Vujcic/BIRN. Jelena Zoric and Milos Katic Belgrade BIRN August 4, 202607:26 A Serbian veteran of the conflict… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Came to Earn a Living, Sent to Die: DIU Identifies Two Eliminated russian Mercenaries from Kyrgyzstan
Came to Earn a Living, Sent to Die: DIU Identifies Two Eliminated russian Mercenaries from Kyrgyzstan 4 August 2026 The aggressor state russia continues to actively recruit labor migrants for its… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
A new court case might hold Mali responsible for the mercenaries it invited in
Mali’s accountability does not turn on whether it ordered the Moura killings. It turns on what Mali did, and failed to do, as the sovereign authority responsible for what happens on its own territory: whether it took steps to prevent harm from forces it deliberately contracted, investigated the killings once they were documented, prosecuted those responsible, and provided any remedy to survivors. Continue reading
A Symptom and Instrument of Foreign Power
In an era increasingly defined by deniable warfare, proxy forces, and the blurring of state and non-state violence, Moscow’s Mercenaries: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group offers a compelling and authoritative examination of one of the most consequential security phenomena of the early twenty-first century. Continue reading
THE CONCESSION
The cheapest, fastest, least politically costly way to do violence — to guard a pipeline, patrol a border, put down a riot, garrison an embassy, run a prison, fly a strike package — was to buy it from someone else, and that someone else had, over a century, gotten very good at selling it. Continue reading
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THE LECTERN AND THE LEDGER
“The future you’re describing,” Kessler said, “is one where rich countries fight through proxies, where nobody answerable to a voter ever pulls the trigger, and where peace and war blur together until neither word means anything. The politics of that is the death of oversight. The culture of it is treating an armed guard as a permanent fixture of ordinary life. And the economics of it always, somehow, work out fine for the man standing at this podium.” Continue reading
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