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Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies Impact on Military Effectiveness
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At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing tendency to outsource missions to PSCs has significant ramifications for both tactical and long-term strategic military effectivenessand for the likelihood that the democracies that deploy PSCs will be victorious in warfare, both over the short- and long-term. She highlights some of the ongoing problems with deploying large numbers of private security contractors alongside the military, specifically identifying the deployment scenarios involving PSCs that are most likely to have either positive or negative implications for military effectiveness. She then provides detailed recommendations to alleviate these problems. Given the likelihood that the U.S. will continue to use PSCs in future contingencies, this book has real implications for the future of U.S. military and foreign policy.

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Victory for Hire

PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES IMPACT

ON MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS

Molly Dunigan

Stanford Security Studies,

An Imprint of Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

2011 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press.

Special discounts for bulk quantities of Stanford Security Studies are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations. For details and discount information, contact the special sales department of Stanford University Press.

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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dunigan, Molly.

Victory for hire: private security companies impact on military effectiveness / Molly Dunigan.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8047-7458-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-7459-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-7741-4 (electronic)

1. Private military companies. 2. Private security services. 3. Military policy. I. Title.

UA13.5.D86 2011

355.3'5dc22

2010035617

Typeset by Thompson Type in 10/14 Minion

For Mom & Dad

Thanks for all you do

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

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ABBREVIATIONS

ABC American Broadcasting Corporation

1AD First Armored Division

AOR Area of Responsibility

APC All Peoples Congress

BAPSC British Association of Private Security Companies

BW GPSOI Blackwater Global Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute

CATT Command, Administration, and Training Team

CBS Columbia Broadcasting System (now CBS Corporation, a major U.S. television network)

CF Coalition Forces

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIDG Civilian Irregular Defense Group

COIN Counterinsurgency

CONOC Contractor Operations Cell

CONUS Continental United States

CRC CONUS Replacement Center

CRG Control Risks Group

DoD (U.S.) Department of Defense

DoS (U.S.) Department of State

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency

DS Defense Science Board

DSL Defence Systems Limited

DTAP Democracy Transition Assistance Program

ECOMOG Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group

EO Executive Outcomes

EODT Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology

FCO (British) Foreign and Commonwealth Office

FDFA (Swiss) Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

FSLN Sandinista National Liberation Front

GAO Government Accountability Office (Formerly the General Accounting Office)

HV Hrvatska Vojska (Croatian Armed Forces)

ICDC Iraqi Civil Defense Corps

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

IDF Israeli Defense Forces

IHL International Humanitarian Law

IPOA International Peace Operations Association

IR International Relations

ISF Iraqi Security Forces

ISOA International Stability Operations Association

ITAR International Transfer of Arms Regulations

JNA Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija (Yugoslav Peoples Army)

KBR Kellogg, Brown, & Root

KMS Keenie Meenie Services

LAF Lebanese Armed Forces

LN Local National

MCM Manual for Courts Martial

MEJA Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act

MNF Multi-National Forces

MNF-I Multi-National Force-Iraq

MoD Ministry of Defense

MPRI Military Professional Resources Incorporated

MRE Military Readiness Exercise

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NBC National Broadcasting Corporation

NPR National Public Radio

OAU Organization of African Unity

OEF Operation Enduring Freedom

OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom

OOTW Operations Other Than War

PCO Project Contracting Office

PKSOI Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute

PLO Palestinian Liberation Organization

PMC Private Military Company

PMF Private Military Firm

PMSC Private Military & Security Company

POW Prisoner of War

PRT Provincial Reconstruction Team

PSC Private Security Company

PSD Personal Security Detail

QRF Quick-Reaction Force

RMA Revolution in Military Affairs

ROC Reconstruction Operations Center

RSO Regional Security Office

RUF Revolutionary United Front

SAS Special Air Services

SIGIR Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

SIRs Serious Incident Reports

SLPP Sierra Leone Peoples Party

SMTJ Special Maritime & Territorial Jurisdiction

SOFs Special Operations Forces

SR Sponsored Reserve

S&R Stability & Reconstruction

SSTR Stability, Security, Transition, & Reconstruction

TCN Third-Country National

TOW Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (antitank missiles

TRADOC Training & Doctrine Command

UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UCMJ Uniform Code of Military Justice

UK United Kingdom

UN United Nations

UNAMSIL United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

US United States

USCENTCOM United States Central Command

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I AM INDEBTED TO MANY who have supported me throughout the process of writing and publishing this work. Professors Matthew Evangelista, Judith Reppy, Peter Katzenstein, and Colonel Isaiah Wilson III all deserve special thanks for their roles in advising me as this project first came together. I feel extremely blessed to have had the chance to work with each of you. My editors at Stanford University Press, Dr. Geoffrey Burn and Jessica Walsh, also deserve my heart-felt thanks for their guidance and support throughout the review process, and my copyeditor, Margaret Pinette, deserves gratitude for her patience with me throughout the editorial process. Both the Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars Program of the United States Institute of Peace and the Peace Studies Program of Cornell University deserve special thanks for funding this research.

The openness of numerous military and private security company officials and operators made this study possiblewords cannot express my appreciation for your willingness to participate in this project. I would particularly like to thank Colonel Timothy Cornett, Colonel Tom Johnson, Alan Brosnan, Todd Taylor, Doug Brooks, and J. J. Messner, all of whom went above and beyond the call of duty to help me as I conducted this research. I am also grateful to my colleagues at the RAND Corporation for allowing me time to revise the manuscript.

Numerous colleagues read through various versions of the draft and, while all errors and omissions are my own, I am indebted to all of you for your assistance. Jessica Watkins in particular deserves special recognition and enormous thanks for her research and editing assistance. Deborah Avant, Ulrich Petersohn, and three anonymous reviewers for Stanford University Press also provided extremely useful insights on various portions of the book. Jennifer Erickson was a very helpful critic in the early stages of the projects design, and my brother Seth was kind enough to proofread early versions of the draft.

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