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  2000-2004 Scholarship. It is always interesting to note the change of focus and contrast between the articles listed below and the scholarship that the involvement of security and military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has generated. The finer points in this transition give rise to critical issues that remain to be addressed systematically.  
2001 - 2005
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• ASPI. War and Profit: Doing business on the battlefield. Australia, 30 March 2005 (not downloadable for free): click here

• Avant, Deborah. Privatizing Military Training. Foreign Policy in Focus. May 2002, vol. 7, no. 6: http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol7/v7n06miltrain_body.html

• Carbonnier, Gilles. Privatisations, sous-traitance et partenariats public-privé : charity.com ou business.org? Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge, no. 856, Décembre 2004, 725-743: click here, or http://www.icrc.org/web/fre/sitefre0.nsf/htmlall/692E9Q/$File/irrc_856_Carbonnier.pdf

• Center for Public Integrity. Making a Killing : the Business of War. Washington DC, ICIJ, October 2002 (includes a searchable PMCs database): http://www.icij.org/report.aspx?aid=177&sid=100

• Cultures & Conflits. Les entreprises para-privées de coercition: de nouveaux mercenaires? Saint-Ouen, 2003, 52:3: http://www.conflits.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=84

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• Goddard, S. The Private Military Company: A Legitimate International Entity Within Modern Conflict. Master of Military Art and Science. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2001: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2001/pmc-legitimate-entity.pdf

• Isenberg, David. A Fistful of Contractors: The Case for a Pragmatic Assessment of Private Military Companies in Iraq. BASIC Research Report (2004.2), September 2004. http://basicint.org/pubs/Research/2004PMC.htm

• Lipsit, Carl. Operationalizing Contingency Contracting Considerations for Effective and Efficient Management of Contingency Contractors During Deployment. USAWC Strategy Research Project, U.S. Army War College, 18 March 2005: click here

• Manker, Jr, James E. and Williams, Kent D. Contractors in Contingency Operations: Panacea or Pain? Air Force Journal of Logistics, vol. 28, no. 3, 14-23: click here

• McBride, Michael T. The Proliferation of Contractors on the Battlefield: A Changing
Dynamic That Necessitates a Strategic Review
. U.S. Army War College, October 2003: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA415747

• Reason Public Policy Institute. Privatization Watch-The War and Reconstruction Issue. Monthly Analizing of Privatization Developments. no. 318, June/July 2003: http://www.rppi.org/junejuly03pw.pdf

• Smith, Eugene B. The New Condottieri and US Policy: The Privatization of Conflict and Its Implications. Parameters, vol. 32, no. 4, Winter 2002-03: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/02winter/smith.pdf

• Schreirer, Fred and Marina Caparini. Privatising Security: Law, Practice and Governance of Private Military and Security Companies. DCAF, Geneva, March 2005: click here

• Trautner, D. L. A Personal Account and Perspective of the U.S. Army Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). Paper presented at the 2004 Conference of Army Historians, Arlington, Virginia, 15 July 2004: click here

• Urey, Ronda. Civilian Contractors on the Battlefield. USAWC Strategy Research Project, U.S. Army War College, 18 March 2005: click here

For studies focusing on the Iraq conflict, visit the CASE STUDIES section at our PrivateMilitary.org@Amazon Shop
 

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