The Rise of the Private Military and Security Industry
... themselves vehemently deny; understandably so, since mercenarism is illegal under existing international law. Some observers have supported the view that PMSCs and their personnel... ... typology of PMSCs in fact distinguishes between private military companies and private security companies. The former are considered potentially more closely involved in combat... ... 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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