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• Overcoming Post-Colonial Myopia: A Call to Recognize and Regulate Private Military Companies

MILITARY LAW REVIEW Volume 176 June 2003 OVERCOMING POST-COLONIAL MYOPIA: A CALL TO RECOGNIZE AND REGULATE PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES MAJOR TODD S...

• Military Law Review
• Nbr. 176, June 2003

• Private military companies from Renaissance Italy to modern day Afghanistan.

Military contractors - condottiere - and their men were not welcome anywhere in Renaissance Europe. No one enjoyed the presence of these mercenary for...

• WIDER Angle
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Democrats Step Up Scrutiny of Private Military Companies

By Bill Sizemore The Virginian-Pilot

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• September 22, 2007

• The Icoc: An Industry-Led, Multi-Stakeholder Initiative

First known as the "Swiss Initiative," this effort began as an inter-govemmental dialogue, resulting in the Montreux Document, which outlined "pertinent international legal obligations and good practices for States related to operations of private military and security companies during armed conflict" (Montreux Document).

• Journal of International Peace Operations
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 4, January 2011

• Undeclared War and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

While Congress initially reigned supreme, time has resulted in the ascendancy of the Executive branch as the "decider" over how and when to employ force in pursuit of national interests. Military special operations forces, covert operations, private military companies, and the desire to leverage information to reduce casualties all present challenges to congressional accountability.

• Parameters
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 1, April 2009

• Top 50 Public &Amp; Private Companies: Humvee's Military Success Drives South Bend Company

The deserts of Kuwait and Iraq have nothing in common with the streets of American suburbia. So why would anyone suppose that a vehicle designed for m...

• Indianapolis Business Journal
• August 04, 2009

• Geek Cavalries Answer the Call in Gulf Coast; Teams From Military, Large Companies and Private Groups Set Up Wireless Networks in Hurricane-Hit Areas

Hours after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and knocked out telecommunications across much of the region, Mac Dearman visited shelters in northern Louisiana to connect telephones. Dearman does not work for a phone company.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 10, 2005

• Armed Entrepreneurs

Pejoratively labeled the "whores of war" or the "soldiers of fortune," personnel from private military companies (PMCs) have been receiving undue negative media attention because their duties seem so similar to mercenaries of the old-fashioned variety. This new breed of military contracting has played a major role in shaping security in Iraq, offering logistical support and supply transportation to coalition forces as well as retraining programs for the Iraqi army. The PMC presence in Iraq provides an effective stop-gap measure for the problem of overstretched conventional military forces. Many PMCs bring considerable professional military experience to the task of security. The need for greater regulation of PMCs underscores the problems of PMC accountability in Iraq. While internation...

• Harvard International Review
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 1, April 2006

• Private Military and Security Companies; Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations.

ISBN: 9780415432757 TITLE: Private military and security companies; ethics, policies and civil-military relations. AUTHOR: Ed. by Andrew Alexandra et ...

• Reference and Research Book News
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 4, November 2008

• Regulating the Private Security Sector in South Africa

Introduction THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO ANALYZE THE SOUTH AFRICAN REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR the private security industry, an object of investigation that, at least at the domestic level, presents an interesting case study for an effective regulatory regime.1 Private security as a concept means different things to different people: to some, it means mercenaries, yet, to others, it means private military companies (PMCs) and private security companies (PSCs). In this context, the private security industry offers security services by security providers as envisaged in the Private security Industry Regulation Act of 2001. section 1 of the act defines "security service" as the provision of one or more of the following: protecting or safeguarding a person or property in any manner; giving advice ...

• Social Justice
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 3/4, July 2007