No Accounting for Bad Contracting: Private Military and Security Contracts and Ineffective Regulation in Conflict Areas

The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security

“…Primarily, scholars argue that outsourcing went too far (Camacho, 2015;Heinecken, 2014), questioning the rationale and validity of the pro argument toward outsourcing. The issues of costs, efficiencies, and quality of outsourcing military functions have been examined and reexamined, as experts debate if outsourcing should proceed or be limited (Akcinaroglu & Radziszewski, 2013;Petersohn, 2013Petersohn, , 2017Swed & Materne, 2022). The growing centrality of PMSCs in security calculations and the evolution of this sector as a new dimension of the military-industrial complex also reshuffled elementary assumptions in civil-military relations.…”