PRIVATE MILITARY SECURITY COMPANIES – MISSING LINK IN THE NEW IRAQI SECURITY PARADIGM?
Journal Title: Impact Strategic - Year 2015, Vol 57, Issue 4
Abstract
At the end of May 2015, U.S. government announced its intention to boost the number of Private Military Contractors in Iraq, according to the Professional Overseas Contractors website, as part of the White House’s growing effort to drive away the Islamic State that is threatening the Iraqi capital. Paradoxically, this decision has been made at a moment when Iraq has 600’000 security forces, is spending every year approximately 7 billion dollars on defense and there is an international Coalition that is supporting the security forces to counter ISIS, even though mainly aerial. While the literature of last 12 years on Iraq has paid a lot of attention on the legal or ethical use of Private Military Contractors in this country, this paper attempts to identify if the presence of PMSCs in post-Saddam Iraq has affected the reconstruction of the Iraqi Army, by looking at the role they played starting with the very moment when former Iraqi Army had been dismantled, until Mosul moment, in June 2014.
Authors and Affiliations
Ecaterina MAȚOI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP112318
- DOI -
- Views 87
- Downloads 0
THE CASPIAN ENERGETIC RESOURCES’ SECURITY AND THE CRISIS FROM GEORGIA
After four decades, another war starts, but this time not in the Middle East, but in Caucasus,transforming a frozen conflict , the one of the South Osetia, into an open one, counter-posing the Georgian forces to the se...
INTEREST GROUPS AND HUMAN SECURITY
STRATEGY FOR AFGHANISTAN
The prolonged delay of the insecurity situation in Afghanistan, regardless the impressive presence of the allied and partner forces, has been the reason why this “hot subject” was considered of outmost importance on th...
THE BALANCE OF POWER FROM THE REALISTS PERSPECTIVE
The present article assumes that the idea of „balance of power” represents one of the fundamental concepts for the area of International Relations, not only from the perspective of its theory but also from the one of its...
THE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT WITHIN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE THROUGH THE SECURITY STRATEGIES OF ROMANIA, HUNGARY AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA
The security strategies play an important role in shaping the foreign affairs, in defining level of interaction between different strategic actors, in understanding the security environment and especially in forecast...