Unpacking the Private Military Complex

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    Companies

    1. Establishing a multinational walking blood bank in Haiti operational, regulatory, and cultural lessons from the MSSM mission
    2. KBR Defendants Agree to Settle Kickback and False Claims Allegations
    3. SONS OF SINAI-/ ABNAA SINAI business profile
    4. MORAN SECURITY GROUP
    5. Dogs of war: Russia's corporate warriors in armed conflicts
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    Academic

    1. DOGS OF WAR: Russia’s corporate warriors in armed conflicts
    2. The common defense: Challenging state authority and the citizen army through the privatization of force
    3. Death squads, security forces and private justice organizations Paramilitaries in contemporary Latin America
    4. Canada’s Shadow Workforce: The Effects of Military Privatization on Political Behaviour and Authority within Liberal-Democratic States, and Their Implications for International Security
    5. Selective privatization of security: Why American strategic leaders choose to substitute private security contractors for national military force
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    Russia

    1. DOGS OF WAR: Russia’s corporate warriors in armed conflicts
    2. Bolivia probes cases of citizens lured to fight for Russia
    3. Russia’s war against Ukraine: Thousands of foreign nationals recruited by Russia in violation of international law
    4. How Russia is luring foreign nationals to fight in Ukraine More and more, Russia is recruiting men from the w
    5. Russia denies using Colombian mercenaries in Ukraine war
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    Legal

    1. Union Sues TSA Over Secret Plan to Privatize Security
    2. KBR Defendants Agree to Settle Kickback and False Claims Allegations
    3. Switzerland investigates 24 citizens suspected of participating in the conflict in Ukraine
    4. A new court case might hold Mali responsible for the mercenaries it invited in
    5. A mercenary from Latvia was sentenced in the DPR
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Union Sues TSA Over Secret Plan to Privatize Security
    2. The common defense: Challenging state authority and the citizen army through the privatization of force
    3. Canada’s Shadow Workforce: The Effects of Military Privatization on Political Behaviour and Authority within Liberal-Democratic States, and Their Implications for International Security
    4. Selective privatization of security: Why American strategic leaders choose to substitute private security contractors for national military force
    5. Privatization of Security Revisited the Expansion of Private Security Companies in the Age of Hybrid Conflict (2013-2025)
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