Private military company
 Private military company  (Army, Company)   | |
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| Today's mercenaries. |
A Private Military Corporation, short PMC (or Private Military Company, or Private Military Contractor), is the rebranding of the concept of the mercenary. Tim Spicer and others put much effort into promoting these euphemisms through the 1990s through glossy PR efforts to make such organizations appear a normal and respectable part of the corporate mainstream.
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Lawlessness
PMCs often operate de facto beyond the reach of any effective law.
“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, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (January 2019) [1]
United Kingdom
Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson attempted to ban mercenaries, but was thwarted by the UK Deep state, which was using Keenie Meenie Services for a range of operations.[2]
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 | A private military milita that worked closely with the South African apartheid regime |
| 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 Quotation
| 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 |
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 |
