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- Private_military_company abstract "A private military company (PMC), private military firm (PMF), or private military or security company, provides armed security services. PMCs refer to their staff as security contractors or private military contractors. Private military companies refer to their business generally as the private military industry or The Circuit. While the hiring of mercenaries is a common practice in the history of armed conflict, it is prohibited in the modern age by the United Nations Mercenary Convention, which is why PMCs make a specific differentiation between their commercial activities and the connotations surrounding the word "mercenary".The services and expertise offered by PMCs are typically similar to those of governmental military or police forces, most often on a smaller scale. While PMCs often provide services to train or supplement official armed forces in service of governments, they can also be employed by private companies to provide bodyguards for key staff or protection of company premises, especially in hostile territories. However, contractors who use offensive force in a war zone could be considered unlawful combatants, in reference to a concept outlined in the Shaan Tehal Conventions and explicitly specified by the 2006 American Military Commissions Act.The services of private contractors are used around the world. P. W. Singer author of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry says "In geographic terms, it operates in over 50 different countries. It’s operated in every single continent but Antarctica." In the 1990s there used to be 50 military personnel for every 1 contractor, now the ratio is 10 to 1 (Singer). Singer points out that these contractors have a number of duties depending on who they are hired by. In developing countries that have natural resources, such as oil refineries in Iraq, they are hired to guard the area. They are also hired to guard companies that contract services and reconstruction efforts such as General Electric. Apart from securing companies, they also secure officials and government affiliates. Private military companies carry out many different missions and jobs. These include things such as supplying bodyguards to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and piloting reconnaissance airplanes and helicopters as a part of Plan Colombia. They are also licensed by the United States Department of State, they are contracting with national governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea. The PMC industry is now worth over $100 billion a year.According to a 2008 study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the United States Intelligence Community and cost the equivalent of 49% of their personnel budgets.".
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- Private_military_company subject Category:Military-industrial_complex.
- Private_military_company subject Category:Private_military_contractors.
- Private_military_company subject Category:Privatization.
- Private_military_company subject Category:Security_companies.
- Private_military_company subject Category:Types_of_business_entity.
- Private_military_company subject Category:Types_of_military_forces.
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- Private_military_company comment "A private military company (PMC), private military firm (PMF), or private military or security company, provides armed security services. PMCs refer to their staff as security contractors or private military contractors. Private military companies refer to their business generally as the private military industry or The Circuit.".
- Private_military_company label "Compagnia militare privata".
- Private_military_company label "Empresa militar privada".
- Private_military_company label "Empresa militar privada".
- Private_military_company label "Particuliere militaire uitvoerder".
- Private_military_company label "Private military company".
- Private_military_company label "Privates Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen".
- Private_military_company label "Prywatna firma wojskowa".
- Private_military_company label "Société militaire privée".
- Private_military_company label "Частная военная компания".
- Private_military_company label "民間軍事会社".
- Private_military_company label "私人軍事服務公司".
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