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2 April 2004, New York Times, Need an army? Just pick up the phone [Barry Yeoman]
19 March 2004, Brookings Institution, Dogs of war go corporate [Peter Singer]
15 March 2004, The Star, Would it be so terrible if the dogs of war bit? [Nicole Fritz]
27 February 2004, Daily Star, Privatizing peace and security: a Hobbesian dilemma [Peter Speetjens]
10 February 2004, The Star (SA), Are we fighting foreign wars?
3 January 2004, Straits Times, Controls needed to rein in private military firms [Raenette Taljaard]
20 December 2003, Asia Times, “Corporate Warriors” book review [Singer/Isenberg]
15 December 2003, Peace & Conflict Monitor, The business of war [Marc von Boemcken]
9 December 2003, Yale Global, Modern-day mercenaries [Raenette Taljaard]
28 November 2003, Washington File, Contracting for peace is rational approach [Prof William Douglas]
17 November 2003, Globe and Mail, Private military companies [Madelaine Drohan]
19 October 2003, Boston Globe, A new twist on a long military tradition [Doug Brooks]
10 September 2003, CBC Dispatches, Private Military Companies [RealPlayer, 9mb]
3 September 2003, Charleston Gazette, PMFs: new element in war
2 September 2003, Washington Post, PMCs in the arsenal [Philip Gold, Erin Solaro]
31 August 2003, Pittsburgh Tribune, What mercenaries are for [Prof Joe Mistick]
25 August 2003, UPI, Analysis: Mercenary as future peacekeeper?
25 August 2003, Newsweek International, Dogs of peace
1 August 2003, The Star (SA), Mercenary law overlooks a hired gun solution [Peter Fabricius]
21 July 2003, New York Times, Have Guns, will Travel [Pete Singer]
2 June 2003, Washington Post, Help for beleaguered peacekeepers
June 2003, Policy Review, Peacekeepers Inc [Pete Singer]
9 April 2003, Post-Gazette, Do mercenaries have a role? [Clarke Thomas]
December 2002, Corporate Research, Business on the battlefield [Mafruza Khan]
Winter 2002, Harvard International Review, Soldiers of Fortune 500 [Sean Creehan]
October/November 2002, The Center for Public Integrity, The business of war (11-part series)
22 October 2002, buzzle.com, Private Armies [Sam Vaknin]
Autumn 2002, Culture Mandala, Dogs of War or Tomorrow's Peacekeepers? [Tanya Cook]
28 May 2002, Reuters, Could dogs of war become doves of peace? [Matthew Tostevin]
15 May 2002, New York Times, A Private Military [Doug Brooks]
March 2002, RUSI, Newsbrief on PMC Regulation Green Paper [Word Document]
11 March 2002, iansa, Regulated private military firms have a role [David Isenberg]
20 February 2002, Financial Times, Leash the dogs of war [Kevin O'Brien]
17 February 2002, Sunday Telegraph, Mercenaries are much misunderstood men [Kevin Myers]
January 2002, International Security, Corporate Warriors [Peter Singer]
1 January 2002, Harvard International Review, International Mercenaries [Sean Creehan]
24 October 2001, RUSI, PMCs - conference report
9 September 2001, West African Magazine, PMCs: Interview with Doug Brooks.
Aug/Sept2001, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Privatising protection [David Shearer]
4 June 2001, Washington Post, Paid to make peace [Sebastian Mallaby]
23 March 2001, Africa Analysis, Why mercenaries matter in Africa [Doug Brooks]
22 March 2001, World Policy Institute, US arms and training programs in Africa [William Hartung]
12 March 2001, International Alert, Written submission to UNCHR re PMCs (PDF file download)
15 January 2001, AllAfrica.com, Book Review: UN Scores 'Near Zero' In Its Peacekeeping Missions
16 December 2000, International Herald Tribune, UN Peacekeeping in Africa [William Shawcross]
6 November 2000, Harvard World Model UN, The Mercenary Question in Africa
Autumn 2000, SANDF Defence College, Privatising peacekeepjng operations [Col J Slabbert]
23 September 2000, Saturday Star, Private Security Firms Can End Africa's Wars Cheaply [Doug Brooks]
18 September 2000, West Africa Magazine, Mercenaries? No, PMCs
13 September 2000, The Times, Mercenaries can save Sierra Leone [Sam Kiley]
29 August 2000, ABC TV, Interview with William Shawcross on using PMCs
August 2000, Toward Freedom, Fire Sale Earth [Greg Guma]
July/Aug 2000, Military Review, Africa's security issues through 2010 [Bill Thom]
July 2000, Traders, Hope for the "Hopeless Continent": Mercenaries (PDF file download) [Doug Brooks]
Summer 2000, World Policy Journal, War and Mercy in Africa [William DeMars]
June 2000, Foreign Policy In Focus, Privatizing Military Training [Deborah Avant]
June 2000, Accord, Africa's security in the new millennium [Emmanuel Aning]
May 2000, Unpublished, Privatising War (PDF file download) [Al Venter]
18 May 2000, Stars and Stripes, Review of Shawcross book on peacekeeping [David Isenberg]
18 May 2000, The Telegraph, Yet again the Paras sort out a Cookie cock-up [Boris Johnson]
17 May 2000, ABC News, Privatizing Peacekeeping [Jim Wooten]
16 May 2000, Daily Mail, Send in the dogs of war [Frederick Forsyth]
16 May 2000, UK Independent, Peace mission reopens mercenary debate [Paul Lashmar]
15 May 2000, Wall Street Journal, Send In The Mercenaries [Frederick Forsyth]
12 May 2000, Globe and Mail, Sierra Leone inspires rare proposal [Marcus Lee]
12 May 2000, Washington Post, Should We Privatize The Peacekeeping? [Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl]
12 May 2000, Johannesburg Star, Stop havoc. Let loose the dogs of war [Peter Fabricius]
11 May 2000, Wall Street Journal, A Fool's Errand
10 May 2000, BBC, Africa's peacekeeping problem [Jonathan Eyal, RUSI Director]
April 2000, Rutgers University, Why Do States Hire Private Military Companies? [Henry Sanchez]
1 March 2000, USA Today, Combat for sale: The new, post-Cold War mercenaries [David Isenberg]
19-21 November 1999, Papers presented at Wilton Park conference on Privatisation of Security [PDF]
October 1999, Incite, Saving the sum of things for pay: EO in SL [Michael van Maanen]
12 September 1999, SpinTech, Soldiers R Us: The corporate military [Diane Alden]
7 Mar 1999, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Forum: The dogs of peace [Doug Brooks]
March 1999, Campaign Against Arms Trade, The privatisation of violence [Christopher Wrigley]
4 Feb 1999, New York Times, Saving Sierra Leone, at a Price [Elizabeth Rubin]
22 Jan 1999, The Times, Send in the mercenaries, Mr Cook [Sam Kiley]
14 Jan 1999, The Telegraph, Sandline 'should have been left to finish the job' [Anton La Guardia]
11 Dec 1998, Contemporary Armed Conflicts [Schmid & Jongman]
Dec 1998, Life & Peace Institute, Mercenaries: private power, public insecurity [John Harker]
28 Nov 1998, New York Times, Its Not Just Governments that Make War and Peace Now [Paul Lewis]
13 October 1998, Christian Science Monitor, The new mercenaries [David Isenberg]
September 1998, Ploughshares Monitor, Private Power; Public Insecurity [John Harker]
4 Jul 1998, CNN International Conflict Series, Spotlight: Soldiers of misfortune
11 May 1998, Evening Standard, Why even war is being privatised [George Segal, IISS Director]
9 May 1998, The Times, Credit owed to these 'dogs of war' [Letter from Giles Nixon]
5 May 1998, The Times, The case for a pragmatic assessment of mercenary forces [Leader]
4 May 1998, The Times, Give a dog of war a bad name [Jeffrey Lee, C4 News Foreign Editor]
May 1998, New Africa, Can we control the dogs of war?
Mar/Apr 1998, New Left Review, The Rise of the Corporate Military [Simon Sheppard]
March 1998. New Internationalist, Diamond dogs of war [Roger Moody]
Dec 1997, African Business, The mercenary as corporate executive [Misser and Versi]
Autumn 1997, Covert Action Quarterly, Mercenary Armies and Mineral Wealth [Pratap Chatterjee]
28 July 1997, The Nation, Privatizing War [Ken Silverstein]
9 July 1997, Voice of America, Africa / Mercenaries [Kayode Fayemi]
15 June 1997, ABC Radio, "We don't do wars" roundtable discussion on PMCs
26 May 1997, Time Magazine, Soldiers for sale [Adam Zagorin]
Spring 1997, Armed Forces Journal, To stabilize tottering Africangovernments [Prof Herb Howe]
24 Jan 1997, Mail and Guardian, Leashing the dogs of war
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