New Civilian Actors of Security Area in 21st Century: Private Military Companies and Contracting Firms Cover Image

21’inci Yüzyılda Güvenlik Alanının Yeni Sivil Aktörleri: Özel Askeri Şirketler ve Kontratçı Firmalar
New Civilian Actors of Security Area in 21st Century: Private Military Companies and Contracting Firms

Author(s): Sait Yılmaz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Atatürk Stratejik Araştırmalar Enstitüsü
Keywords: Company; Security; Defense; Logistics; Intelligence

Summary/Abstract: The Private Military Companies (PMCs) and the Contracting Firms (CFs) are defined as the incorporations to provide logistics, manpower and other services for the military. Those incorporations serve for the various public and private customers in a wide security arena and become increasingly widespread. Post-September 11th era has been milestone for these incorporations in course of the war waged by the U.S. to terrorism and rouge states and has overlapped the demand for these incorporations in a great pace. In Iraq operation, while the world has been watching U.S. and British soldiers, they manage the missions they committed silently and effectively. Turkey also has a great functional field to make use of the PMCs/CFs. That will ensure tremendous contribution for the armed forces in terms of effective use of the manpower and other resources.

  • Issue Year: 03/2007
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 43-70
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Turkish