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    Companies

    1. Swarmer, Inc.: A Speculative Stock With A Broken Income Statement
    2. State health department asks judge to force GEO Group to allow a TB investigation while lawsuit moves ahead
    3. Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts
    4. Erik Prince Launches “Air Defense As a Service” Startup With Swarmer
    5. UAE-funded mercenary targeted British activist in covert London operation, ITV reports
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    Academic

    1. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
    2. International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
    3. THE DORSAI CONTRACT
    4. JOVANA JEZDIMIROVIC RANITO
    5. Why doesn't it work? US Regulatory Challenges in Outsourcing Private Use of Violence in Stability Operations
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    Russia

    1. Cash Over Combat: How Saddam Haftar bought the freedom of captured Wagner mercenaries
    2. Russian Forces Take Out 20 Brazilian Mercenaries in Ukrainian Clashes
    3. After the fall: Russian influence on Africa's illicit economies post-Wagner
    4. Private military companies and arms control challenges: The Wagner Group in Mali-
    5. A Russian private military company founder faces charges over an alleged scam targeting recruits. Journalists list him among officers accused of executing their own men.
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    Legal

    1. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
    2. International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
    3. State health department asks judge to force GEO Group to allow a TB investigation while lawsuit moves ahead
    4. Russia marks foreign mercenaries with numbers on their skin and equipment,
    5. ‘I was willing to die there’: Russia puts RFK Jr.’s son on wanted list over Ukraine war service
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    2. Trump's Private Hacker Memo Is the Right Idea
    3. The Rise of Cyber Mercenaries: How Private Threat Actors Are Reshaping Global Conflict
    4. THE LONG SHADOW OF THE SWORD-FOR-HIRE
    5. JOVANA JEZDIMIROVIC RANITO
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