Private military company

Private military company  (Army,  Company)
Interest of	Peter Warren Singer
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.

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) 

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.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Aegis Defence Services	PMC founded in 2002 by Cercle attendee Tim Spicer
Airtanker Ltd	Hedge Fund Air Force
Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz	Sunni Arab armed group operating in Iran
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.
CACI	Major MIC contractor; torture in Abu Ghraib. Often referred to as “Colonels and Captains, Inc.” to indicate the frequent revolving door of senior military personnel in the company. The company also has strong Israeli ties.
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.
Free Syrian Police	A hastily re-branded Western proxy force in Syria.
Global Strategies Group
Halliburton	Murky US PMC
Jim Hawes	Jim Hawes was a member of SEAL Team 2 (Class 29) and a CIA Contractor who gained notoriety by starting the "Congolese Navy" (Force Navale Congolaise) in support of CIA backed "Mad Mike" Hoare's exploits to put down the Rebellion in the Congo. Jim also hunted for Che Guevara who was in that part of the world at the time stirring up his brand of communism.
Janusian Security Risk Management
Keenie Meenie Services	A private military contractor implicated in Iran Contra. Bought out in 1977 by Major David Walker (SAS).
M23 rebels	The varying incarnations of "rebels" in eastern Congo have all and always been backed by Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda), in turn backed by the USA, UK and Israel.
Military Professional Resources Inc.
Peraton	Large spooky military contractor counting "misinformation"
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 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

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