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AIR DEFENSE PREMIUM+
Now, for one low monthly payment, your critical infrastructure can enjoy the peace of mind formerly reserved for sovereign states, integrated air-defense commands, and people who own several aircraft carriers. Continue reading
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 workers accustomed to migration have created infrastructure that is now exploited by military recruiters and traffickers. Continue reading
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THE MOUTAI ANALYSIS
Rain again. Beijing does its best noir impression maybe four nights a year, and the private room at the Nine Dragons had drawn one of them — low light, lacquered table, a lazy Susan turning like it had somewhere better to be. Six chairs, six scholars, one bottle of Moutai reserved for a toast nobody had earned yet.Song Bowen poured first, because Song Bowen always poured first. It was less hospitality than choreography — he liked to have something in his hand before he started dismantling an argument, the way other men like a cigarette.
loud, in the same room, what the Western literature gets wrong about us. And to enjoy ourselves while we do it.” Continue reading
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The US Army is overhauling how it trains its new helicopter pilots to fly, outsourcing training to a private company
The US Army is overhauling how it trains its new helicopter pilots to fly, outsourcing training to a private company By Kelsey Baker A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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Military to begin two-phase program outsourcing security
Sun, Aug 02, 2026 page2 Military to begin two-phase program outsourcing security By Sam Garcia / Staff writer, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The military is to outsource guard… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes
Since 2017, Russian private military companies such as Wagner, and now its successor, Africa Corps, have become a fixture of Africa’s security landscape. These shadow armies have trained local troops, guarded oilfields and gold mines, and helped African strongmen cling to power. In return, Moscow has secured lucrative mining concessions and geopolitical influence across the continent. Continue reading
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As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns
Private cyber firms will be allowed to take action against foreign threats under a new White House policy, another step into a future where tech developers are ever more closely entwined with military operations, which now evolve faster than governments can keep up.
Under the policy, announced Wednesday, the U.S. government will pay private cybersecurity companies to “manipulate,” “degrade,” “disrupt,” and “destroy” foreign adversary computer networks. The U.S. government historically reserves the right to take those sorts of actions, although they increasingly do so with help from front-line private workers.
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Ossoff calls for answers from private military housing developer, continues investigations
“I have heard concerns from my constituents that Balfour Beatty Communities (BBC) is not preparing units in the time necessary for an incoming family to be able to move into upon their permanent change of station (PCS),” Sen. Ossoff reportedly wrote to CEO Jennifer Hill. “Servicemembers and their families give the greatest sacrifice for our Nation; we must ensure that we provide for them at home.” Continue reading
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PRIVATE EQUITY & THE PMSC INDUSTRY: From Guards-for-Hire to Integrated Military Capability Platforms, 1990–2050
The private military and security contracting (PMSC) industry is no longer well described as a market for armed guards. Its contemporary form spans armed and expeditionary security, military logistics, aviation support, intelligence, cyber operations, training, engineering, and government mission support. Private equity (PE) has been one of the principal forces behind that broadening. Through leveraged buyouts, platform acquisitions, roll-ups, and recapitalizations, PE sponsors have converted what were once relatively narrow contractors into large, diversified government-services enterprises capable of selling states integrated packages of military and security capability.
This report ranks the private-equity firms most consequential to that transformation; examines six portfolio companies — Amentum, Peraton, ManTech, GardaWorld, Allied Universal/G4S, and Constellis — as six distinct models of PE-driven institutionalization; compiles a 50-entry database of PE–PMSC transactions; and projects the industry’s trajectory to 2050. Continue reading
THE DORSAI CLAUSE
It wasn’t nothing, Reyes had to admit. Half the industry ran on verbal handshakes and post-hoc invoices, and a clause that actually bound the client as much as the contractor was, on paper, worth the laminate. The trouble, as always, was the four sentences that weren’t in Section 14(c). No mention of what happened when a client under sanction quietly transferred the paper to a shell that wasn’t. No mention of who audited the audit. No mention, notably, of what a Dorsai soldier in Dickson’s own books would have called the whole point — that the code only meant something because the ones enforcing it would rather lose the contract than the reputation. Continue reading
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