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A private military company (PMC) or private military and security company (PMSC) is a private company providing armed combat or security services for financial gain. PMCs refer to their personnel as " security contractors " or " private military contractors ". The services and expertise offered by PMCs are typically similar to those of ...
Paramilitary. Legion of Frontiersmen, Edmonton Command, 1915 – a nationalist paramilitary group not officially affiliated with the Canadian Army. A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. [1] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934.
AirScan. Titusville, FL. US Department of Defense, United States Air Force, and a number of private companies. Academi. McLean, VA. Consulting. Formerly known as Blackwater and Xe and it is part of the Constellis Group. American International Security Corp. Woburn, MA.
Mercenary. Leonardo da Vinci 's Profilo di capitano antico, also known as il Condottiero, 1480. Condottiero meant "contractor" in its more literal sense but came to be applied to leaders of mercenary groups in Italy during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private ...
Private army. A private army (or private military) is a military or paramilitary force consisting of armed combatants who owe their allegiance to a private person, group, or organization, rather than a nation or state. [1]
Wagner Group. The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner[9] (ЧВК «Вагнер» ), is a Russian [66] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin. [9][67] The Wagner Group has used ...
The United Nations Mercenary Convention, officially the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, is a 2001 United Nations treaty that prohibits the recruitment, training, use, and financing of mercenaries. At the 72nd plenary meeting on 4 December 1989, the United Nations General Assembly ...
Unlawful combatant. An unlawful combatant, illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant / belligerent is a person who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war and therefore is claimed not to be protected by the Geneva Conventions. [1][2][3] The International Committee of the Red Cross points out that the terms "unlawful ...