• PrivateMIlitary.org is a private, independent, and non-profit initiative that offers people interested in "Private Military Companies" (or PMCs), "Private Security Companies" (or PSCs), as well as the growing phenomena of the privatization of security and military outsourcing, an expert directory of hyperlinks pointing to key documents, firms, organizations, stream media, and services related to these topics. As a non-profit initiative, your contributions are very important to keep this website free, updated, and running!

• You can contribute by forwarding relevant links to publications and organizations in each one of the categories we cover, in any language. Links to services, organizations, publications, or stream media that might be of interest to our audience are also welcomed (please see the ABOUT page). You are also encouraged to contribute to our MySpace and YouTube networks.

• If forwarding a link from your own organization or business, it is also desirable that you notify us of subsequent changes to the URL submitted in order to keep PrivateMIlitary.org as updated as possible. We also request that, to the extent possible, you reciprocate the link. We understand the nature of the private military field and respect your confidentiality. Any information submitted will not be shared with third parties. Hence, rather than providing online forms we offer you the flexibility of simply e-mailing us your contributions, comments, or requests: i...@privatemilitary.org (please click on the missing bit to reveal the e-mail).

• PrivateMilitary.org grows organically. We expand our content and further develop the website based on your contributions, fedback, and suggestions. Therefore, at different points some pages are updated with more regularity than others. In this light, we are now working on a proactive outreach to new communities and services. Visit the REACHING US page to learn more about our ever expanding online footprint.

• We want to reach the widest audience possible. Thus, although suggestions have been made to develop a more visually enhanced and sophisticated website, for the time being PrivateMilitary.org will largely remain an html and text based website. This way, we can be easily accessed by remote communities that do not benefit from wider broadband access and later generation computers. In addition, we are sure the reader would agree that websites are becoming increasingly overloaded with unwanted and intrusive media that only works in slowing down the speed of the internet.