Private military company
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 Private military company  (Army, Company)   | |
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| Interest of | Peter Warren Singer |
| Today's mercenaries. | |
A private military company (PMC), or private military contractor, is a rebranding of the concept of the mercenary.
Lawlessness
PMCs often operate de facto beyond the reach of any effective law.
“The sector still has no binding regulations, though. It doesn’t even have an agreed-upon definition of a private military or security company.”
Abigail Fielding-Smith, Crofton Black, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (January 2019) [1]
United Kingdom
Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson attempted to ban mercenaries, but was thwarted by the UK Deep state, which was using Keenie Meenie Services for a range of operations.[2]
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Aegis Defence Services | PMC founded in 2002 by Cercle attendee Tim Spicer |
| ArmorGroup | One of the largest private security firms operating in Iraq |
| ArmorGroup/North America | |
| Blackwater | Blackwater was a huge US-based private military contractor infamous for a string of scandals. |
| CACI | Major MIC contractor; torture in Abu Ghraib. Often referred to as “Colonels and Captains, Inc.” to indicate the frequent revolving door of senior military personnel in the company. The company also has strong Israeli ties. |
| Control Risks | A British private security company. |
| DynCorp | A long established private military contractor. Whistleblowers have alleged that the group engages in child sex trafficking amongst other activities. |
| Executive Outcomes | A private military contractor which offered "Security management" and "full-service risk management consulting". It operated during the 1990s and boasted 500 military advisers and over 3000 military personnel, largely drawn from the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau. |
| Free Syrian Police | A hastily re-branded Western proxy force in Syria. |
| Global Strategies Group | |
| Halliburton | Murky US PMC |
| Jim Hawes | Jim Hawes was a member of SEAL Team 2 (Class 29) and a CIA Contractor who gained notoriety by starting the "Congolese Navy" (Force Navale Congolaise) in support of CIA backed "Mad Mike" Hoare's exploits to put down the Rebellion in the Congo. Jim also hunted for Che Guevara who was in that part of the world at the time stirring up his brand of communism. |
| Janusian Security Risk Management | |
| Keenie Meenie Services | A private military contractor implicated in Iran Contra. Bought out in 1977 by Major David Walker (SAS). |
| Military Professional Resources Inc. | |
| Phoenix Close Protection | |
| Sabre International Security | A PMC which profited big in Iraq from the war and then vanished when the going was not good. |
| Saladin Security Ltd | |
| Sandline International | |
| South African Institute for Maritime Research | A private military milita that worked closely with the South African apartheid regime |
| Turi Defense Group |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Obama and the Intelligence Cabal | webpage | 3 August 2011 | Natasha Barch Vadim Stolz | |
| File:Isenberg Private Military Contractors.pdf | paper | January 2009 | David Isenberg |
