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    1. AIR DEFENSE PREMIUM+
    2. Swarmer Takes 20% Stake in Vectus Air Defense
    3. Exclusive: Vectus, led by Erik Prince, pitches air defense as a service
    4. Wagner Group: Russian mercenary group
    5. Ossoff calls for answers from private military housing developer, continues investigations
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    Academic

    1. Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap?
    2. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
    3. International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
    4. THE DORSAI CONTRACT
    5. JOVANA JEZDIMIROVIC RANITO
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    Russia

    1. Russia finds new source of 'cannon fodder' on Indonesian islands, intelligence says
    2. Brit fighting for Russia killed in Donetsk
    3. Tale of Wag­ner mer­cen­ary looks to Dosto­evsky at fest­ival launch
    4. Andijan Court Sentences Uzbek Citizen for Mercenary Activity
    5. Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes
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    Legal

    1. Andijan Court Sentences Uzbek Citizen for Mercenary Activity
    2. Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes
    3. Criminal links of South Africa’s private security companies also require scrutiny
    4. A mercenary from the UK was sentenced in Moscow
    5. THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. AIR DEFENSE PREMIUM+
    2. The Philippines’ Security Trap
    3. THE MOUTAI ANALYSIS
    4. The US Army is overhauling how it trains its new helicopter pilots to fly, outsourcing training to a private company
    5. Military to begin two-phase program outsourcing security
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    Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire

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