Archive for the 'PMC's' Category

Company Spotlight: Bancroft Global Development, the 501(c)3 Non-profit PMC

    That’s right, I am not making this up.  Bancroft Global Development is a no-kidding non-profit PMC. lol.  Anyway, this is all I could scrape up about BGD, and I thought it was a pretty cool concept.  I don’t know of any other non-profit PMC’s out there, and this company totally presents a different view on […]

Company Spotlight: Oryol

   This is a continuation of the video I posted earlier about this company.  This kind of reminds of another article I wrote in regards to PMC versus PMC. Not in the way of Blackwater fighting Oryol on the battlefield, but in the way of competing with them on the battlefield of market share. That the German […]

Legal News: Priv-War, and Regulating the PMC/PSC Industry

    Be sure to check in with their news section every now and then.  This is Europe’s attempt at finding the correct model of regulation for private military companies, so it will be interesting to see what they come up with over the years. -Matt 
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PRIV-WAR is a collaborative research project coordinated by the European University […]

Publications: Efficacy of Private Military Contractors in Peace Operations, by Nicholas Pascucci

    This is a nice little publication that gives a quick run down of positive (and some negative) uses of PMC’s over the years.  One of the conclusions made, that I really like, is the concept of applying quality control and clear objectives for these companies.  The author makes the point that if used correctly, […]

Industry Talk: The Montreux Document

  I know that this is a little old, but I still thought it was important to mention.  So why is a document about clarifying the rules for private military and security companies important?  My answer is because it helps to legitimize the industry and gives us all a framework of rules to operate by in […]

News: Blackwater Plans Shift From Security Business

     I figured I would post this, because it is making the rounds out there.  I apologize for posting two Blackwater stories back to back, but this thing just popped up and deserves some attention.
 
      I tend to think that Blackwater will do what it can to get the job done with their […]

News: Blackwater Bulks Up Air Power

This was from Wired’s Danger Room blog. I read about this, when it first came out in Janes Defense Weekly last year. Cool stuff. -Head Jundi
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Blackwater Bulks Up Air Power Using Little-Known Company
By Sharon Weinberger April 07, 2008 
 Private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has purchased a light attack counterinsurgency aircraft, and over two dozen other aircraft, […]

News: Low Cost, Low Altitude Airborne Resupply, Afghanistan

     I wanted to post this, because this is right up my ally.  As a smokejumper, we did these kind of operations all the time for resupply.  So this concept is really not new.  Air America used to do these type of operations during the Southeast Asia conflict, and Blackwater USA Aviation is providing the same kind of services now a […]