The Rise of the Private Military and Security Industry
... of a country’s foreign policy. What is taking place is essentially the gradual privatization of war and foreign policy. One aspect of this process is the rise of... ... themselves vehemently deny; understandably so, since mercenarism is illegal under existing international law. Some observers have supported the view that PMSCs and their personnel... ... like Executive Outcomes in the Angolan civil war during the early 1990’s and Blackwater in Iraq, the term “security company” became dominant among PMSCs...
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