Private military company
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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. {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Private military company |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Abigail Fielding-Smith, Crofton Black, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism|+sep=, |Has text=“The sector still has no binding regulations, though. It doesn’t even have an agreed-upon definition of a private military or security company.” |Is about=Private military company,PMC|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=January 2019 |Sourced from=The Atlantic |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=The Atlantic |Has sourceURL=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/01/afghanistan-civilian-private-security/581263/
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“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]