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 PMC  (army, company)   | |
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A private military contractor or private military company is a rebranding of the concept of the mercenary.
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. |
| Control Risks | A British "private security" company set up in 1975 by David Walker (SAS), comparable to Kroll Inc set up in New York in 1972 |
| 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. |
| Global Strategies Group | |
| Halliburton | Murky US PMC |
| Janusian Security Risk Management | |
| Keenie Meenie Services | A private military contractor implicated in Iran Contra. Bought out in 1977 by Major David Walker (SAS). |
| 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 | Special forces group, "a front for Britain's MI6" |
| Strategic Social | American intelligence and communications firm |
| Turi Defense Group | |
| Wagner Group | A well known ruthless private military contractor. Its founders were involved in a chaotic coup in 2023. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Far West | “There are two kinds of businesses: those which flourish from peace and the strengthening of law and those which require the opposite - zones of incessant chaos like Chechnya Colombia Afghanistan where drugs can be grown or trafficked under the watch of PMCs.” | Peter Dale Scott | 26 February 2006 |
| Private military company | “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 Bureau of Investigative Journalism | January 2019 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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