SOCI 100 Chapter Notes -World Trade Organization, Collateral Damage
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Private companies have become major players in all types of warfare. In failed states, corporations re gaining the civic and political loyalty that should belong to the military or police, yet are only accountable to the elites who hire them. Weber: modern state holds the monopoly over the legitimate use of violence: dedicated to protecting entire nation. Shift from pre-modern to modern warfare: marked by the idea that states did and should fight wars with their own militaries: no more mercenaries. Downfall of mercenaries rise of era of the military corporation. Private military corporations legal entities that supply governments, Ngos and industry with private soldiers: have taken larger roles in war and military campaigns, more pmcs in iraq than soldiers. Cost effective no need to pay for government employees" pensions or peacetime salaries. Strategy can be rapidly deployed in unanticipated short-term conflicts. Reliance on contractors has allowed the us to pursue 2 wars.
