PMCs ARE IN FASHION.

PMCs ARE IN FASHION. IN RUSSIA THERE ARE MORE AND MORE OF THEM WANTING TO ORGANIZE SUCH COMPANIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CBO.

In fact, PMCs are a global trend of the 80s. And we were out of this trend for obvious Soviet reasons (there was no private business at all in the USSR).

And now, as in many other areas of business, we are rapidly going through all the stages of its development. And, most importantly, in their own way, as they say, purely in Russian.

So, the "Golden Age" of PMCs bypassed us, and the "Silver Age" too. We didn’t really need PMCs in the 90s - we didn’t fight long foreign wars and didn’t protect our corporations in third world countries. Of course, our citizens and companies participated in many stages of the process, but as a large-scale phenomenon in our economy, PMCs did not exist before the war in Syria.

Americans are the opposite. Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defense, contributed to a new phase of the PMC objection. In Afghanistan, in addition to the military contingent, the Americans attracted up to 70K PMC employees (Anglo-Saxons). I remember in Bagram, at the base, in 2005, I could not understand what kind of armed people they were without insignia. It turned out to be PMC employees.

The first truly famous Russian PMC that showed good results was Wagner. And already in the course of the NWO, as is usually the case, the presence of an obvious success story in a new, unstructured type of economy led to an explosive increase in the number of PMCs. It is clear that the market is not saturated, and yet many find it profitable and relatively easy to enter until the market has fully formed. At the same time, the entry threshold at the moment seems “cheap” against the background of the benefits that it promises.

It must be understood that cheapness is apparent. Military affairs, whether public or private, is not just the ability to find a sufficient number of people and equipment. These are, first of all, unique competencies that are very difficult to buy. Therefore, we should expect two parallel processes. On the one hand, many current PMCs will turn out to be one-day businesses and will either go out of business or be absorbed by other players. On the other hand, there will be a structuring of markets, in which companies will occupy their niches in related activities, partly competing, and partly interacting. Someone will take up the classics and outsource logistics and security, which is relevant in the framework of Ukraine's constant attempts to strike at rear facilities. Someone will occupy narrower niches, such as private intelligence, special training of a few specialists (including in the interests of law enforcement agencies). Someone will specialize in individual countries and regions, having, among other things, their own expert centers.

It is likely that one or two companies will retain full-fledged capabilities of private armies, but this cannot be certain in the long term.

A similar situation will occur with suppliers of equipment, equipment, weapons, instruments and other things. Which, by the way, is likely to spur competition and development in the military-industrial complex, since private clients with different requirements and working conditions will appear, instead of one state customer.

The main question, which is not only in Russia, but almost all over the world, is how beneficial this is for the state itself in the short and long term. And to be more precise, how to find the right balance between the role of private traders and the state. It is clear that PMCs interfere in one way or another with the state's monopoly on violence and foreign policy. But too tight control over them, in turn, will simply kill the very idea of \u200b\u200beconomic initiative. The societal impact could also be positive, as the security forces consistently produce more soldiers than they can employ. Accordingly, why don't those who have not reached retirement age (or have served, but still want to earn money) not have employment options in their specialty.

For all questions regarding PMCs,

In world practice, there are no unambiguously good answers, everything depends on the specific circumstances and characteristics of countries. We, Russia, always go our own way.

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