Mercenaries?: ; Private Military Agents

Summary


THE BATTLE for control of Fallujah spotlighted the role of private military firms in Iraq.

Brookings Institution scholar Peter W. Singer documented the trend to privatize the military in his book, Corporate Warriors, published last year by Cornell University Press.

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Mercenaries?: ; Private Military Agents

Private military firms - like Halliburton, MPRI, Vinnell or DynCorp - are in the business of war to make profits. Because PMFs are private corporations, the...

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