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December 19, 2006
The Future Of Mercenaries
A look at private armies
and the post-Cold War defense industry.
Indeed, it is unfair to label them simply mercenaries. Militarized corporations do big business, with most security firms being held as divisions as much larger, multi-billion dollar companies: TRW, DynCorp, SAIC, Booz-Allen. And these PMFs are really just filling in the supply gaps created by the end of the Cold War—security threats were atomized, from “US v USSR” to “thy neighbor.” In light of this, and the sudden removal of the lone remaining super power as a security guarantor for vast swaths of the planet, the rise of PMFs, which can be hired for single missions (thus limiting the financial strain on the host country), were a natural choice.
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Posted on December 19, 2006 11:40 PM by cold w810.
Filed in War Stories under cold war.
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