PMC 100billion dollar "industry"
AKA (Military Industrial Complex). Some say the 18 terrorists that attacked the towers on 9/11 did not act alone and were aided and abetted by the MIC who wanted the war to make big $.
Private military company
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A private military company (PMC) is a for-profit enterprise, sometimes a corporation or a limited liability partnership, which provides specialised services and expertise related to military and similar activities.[1] Such companies are equally known as Private Military Corporations, Private Military Firms, Military Service Providers, and generally as the Private Military Industry. The services and expertise provided include defense functions, military training, force protection, and security tasks. While PMCs often provide services to supplement operations involving official armed forces, they also are used to undertake security tasks where no state actor is involved, such as personal security details. PMCs tend to be concentrated in areas of low intensity conflict, where deploying traditional armed forces might be too politically, diplomatically, or economically risky; however, they also collaborate with states in providing military training and in endeavours associated with national defense.
Private military companies supply bodyguards for the Afghani president, build detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, and pilot armed reconnaissance planes and helicopter gunships to destroy coca crops in Colombia. They operate the intelligence and communications systems at the United States Northern Command in Colorado, which is responsible for coordinating a response to any attack on the United States. And licensed by the State Department, they are contracting with foreign governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea. The push to privatize such operations may have became prevalent during the administration of George H. W. Bush. It has resulted in PMCs becoming an over $100 billion a year industry.[2]
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