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Biden may let US defense contractors deploy to Ukraine, but not like in Iraq and Afghanistan: report
The US is considering allowing limited numbers of US private military contractors to serve in Ukrai…
Mia Jankowicz
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Palmer Luckey's start-up Anduril just proved it can challenge legacy defense contractors and win
The defense tech start-up beat legacy names like Boeing and Lockheed, proving just how important AI…
Polly Thompson
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A tablet computer and a 'shopping list' reveal how Russia might take on the US without starting a real war
Great-power competition among near-peer states - namely the US, China, and Russia - is bringing a r…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Marine veteran who died fighting in Ukraine was a volunteer, not a private contractor, say his fellow fighters
One of Willy Joseph Cancel's teammates said that the 22-year-old had funded his own flight to Polan…
Matthew Loh
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Americans trying to flee Sudan are hiring private security companies to get out of the civil war zone after the US said no military evacuation is coming
Security experts criticized the country for failing to better prepare for potential conflict, compa…
Hannah Getahun,Katherine Tang…
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Why small businesses are essential to US national security
The decline of small-business suppliers in the defense marketplace puts the US at risk of losing ke…
Farooq A. Mitha
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A home-improvement contractor from Connecticut who went to fight in Ukraine posted a video of his location online, revealing his unit's location, and then admitted he falsified his military record
A recent New York Times report detailed how some US volunteers have jeopardized the success of the …
John L. Dorman
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America's shadow army is leaving Afghanistan too
The thousands of US contractors sent overseas were a massive experiment in how Uncle Sam could lean…
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Respon…
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Jen Psaki says Blackwater founder Erik Prince is soulless for charging $6,500 for Kabul evacuation flight
Prince, a Trump ally and founder Blackwater Worldwide, said he'll charge extra to transport passeng…
Eliza Relman
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The Biden administration is looking for contractors and guards for a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - stirring outrage in lawmakers and advocates
"Sending Haitian migrants to Guantanamo Bay was a mistake in the 1990s and would be a mistake now,"…
Azmi Haroun
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Russian energy giant Gazprom's private security force was deployed to fight in Ukraine, report says
"I want to tell my colleagues at Gazprom: Don't go to Ukraine, stay at home," a former Gazprom secu…
Filip De Mott
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I run a private security firm where we charge $30,000 a day for hostage rescue missions - here's what my job is like
"Nine times out of 10, kidnapping is a business transaction," says Adam Gonzales, who runs a global…
Jenny Powers
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Russia can't match the US military's hardware, but it has other ways to keep it from working properly
Lots of Russian military hardware has been lost or destroyed in Ukraine, but Moscow has other, unco…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Russian military leaders can't seem to get Wagner and its boss, Prigozhin, to fall in line, and it's a mess that goes beyond dysfunction
Wagner is a loose cannon among the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, and it's constantly creating…
Ryan Pickrell
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Wagner Group mercenaries are getting a lot more help from Russia's military than Prigozhin would like you to think
Despite Prigozhin's complaints, Wagner Group has been supported by Russian military aircraft, artil…
Michael Peck
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The US military is scrambling to build more ammo for itself and for Ukraine, but old Army paperwork could get in the way
It appears that the problems are essentially administrative, but administrative snafus can still ha…
Michael Peck
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Defending the defense industrial base from cyberattacks requires more cooperation with industry
More than 220,000 companies support the Pentagon's force development, and they face increasingly so…
John Sherman
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The 'craziest thing' about seizing Russian superyachts is the US has to pay for them, Biden's national security advisor says on hot mic
The global crackdown on Russian assets has deprived many of its oligarchs of their superyachts, but…
Christopher Woody
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The 'craziest thing' about seizing Russian superyachts is the US has to pay for them, Biden's national security advisor says on hot mic
The global crackdown on Russian assets has deprived many of its oligarchs of their superyachts, but…
Christopher Woody
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With a new unit and F-35s, US Air Force 'aggressors' are trying to replicate the latest threat posed by China
"As the China threat has stepped up, we have to step up our replication," a senior US Air Force off…