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Private Military and Security Companies in the International Legal Void

... when thinking of a mercenary can be seen as presenting a distinction without a difference. Turning the focus on their personnel may make it even more apparent that all the moral concerns on which the resentment, denunciation and legal condemnation of mercenaries have been based can be raised for the use of PMSCs with equal validity. From this point of view, it would seem analytically distorting, for example, to think of a Colombian national working for an American PMSC in Afghanistan as anything other than a mercenary. This example is neither fictitious, nor rare. As of July 2013, 83% of the private military and security contractors working for the US Department of Defense in Iraq, and 10% in Afghanistan, are third-country ...

04.08.2013

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The Rise of the Private Military and Security Industry

... Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Continue to Face Challenges in Tracking Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Report to Congressional Committees, (Washington, D.C., October 2009), p. 9, http://gao.gov/new.items/d101.pdf; Also,... ... Ballesteros, see Percy, Sarah (2007), ‘Morality and Regulation’, in Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt, eds., From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (New York: Oxford University Press), p. 16.

18.06.2013

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