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Mercenaries Are Back, Starting in Haiti

Mercenaries Are Back, Starting in Haiti Armon Lotfi Oct 30, 2026 About 10 percent of Port-au-Prince is not controlled by gangs. That number comes from CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, who…

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    2. The Congo as a Site of Capital Accumulation: Erik Prince and the Privatization of War
    3. Mike Rogers’s Wife Raked in Lucrative Government Security Contracts While Rogers Served as Intel Chair
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    1. Auditing the Same War Twice: SIGIR and SIGAR Compared
    2. Privateers vs pirates or the formation of a public-private partnership for the establishment of a permanent device facing the pirate threat
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    1. Russian forces using mercenaries form Africa and Asia in assaults on Huliaipole front – military
    2. Putin seeks to expand ties with African countries at Russia-Africa summit
    3. Russia–Africa Summit: Moscow is engaging more with Africa, but its delivery is limited
    4. A mercenary from Botswana was killed fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine
    5. Video: An African mercenary in the Russian Armed Forces walked naked across the battlefield, pleading for help
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    2. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
    3. Scots mercenary hailed a hero for fighting for Ukraine ordered to serve 14 years in jail by Putin’s Russian penal colony
    4. US mercenary VanDyke returns to India, Delhi court allows longer stay abroad
    5. Military Service Contractors Should Reconsider Their Risk Management Strategies in Wake of SCOTUS Ending ‘Battlefield Preemption’ of State Law Tort Claims
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    1. PMSC Watchlist & Intelligence Digest, Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
    2. Assembling a Force to Defeat Boko Haram: How Nigeria Integrated the Market into its Counterinsurgency Strategy
    3. WAR ON TERROR AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF FORCE a first analysis of the use of private companies in the U.S. military interventions after September Eleven (2001-2011)
    4. THE ART OF WAR (FOR PROFIT)
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