The military and society interact and shape each other every day. This chapter examines the
diverse, interdisciplinary field of study that seeks to understand and explain that interaction …

This study examines how military background of chief executive officers (CEOs) of private
military and security companies (PMSCs) that intervened in Iraq from 2003 to 2019 affected …

This commentary examines the influence of the Afghanistan war on the content of Armed
Forces & Society. My 20-year tenure as editor of Armed Forces & Society overlaps …

The proliferation of contracts outsourcing military functions to private companies raises
serious oversight concerns vis-à-vis regulation and accountability. As the industry is …

How do private military contractors (PMCs) influence the perpetration of sexual violence? In
providing the first empirical assessment of PMCs' impact on conflict-related sexual violence …

For several decades, the increased need for but the illegality of mercenaries led Western
countries to favor the evolution of these private soldiers into corporate forms under the name …

Corporate privatization of security has generated a neoliberal iteration of an old profession:
the private military contractor. This development has revolutionized security policies across …

This chapter examines the reasons behind the widespread utilization of military contractors.
To address this question, the paper develops the contentious of previous scholarly work to …

Conventional wisdom dictates that women are mostly victims of violence in armed conflict,
but recent studies reveal women are often active participants and perpetrators of violence as …

This chapter addresses the academic and empirical approaches to understanding conflict
that are prevalent in the United States, Russia, and China. It identifies the links and gaps …