The use of private military companies (PMCs) has become increasingly prevalent, with such firms as Blackwater, MPRI, and DynCorp taking over a growing number of roles traditionally performed by the regular military. Military privatization isn’t a new phenomenon, but one that’s been around for thousands of years. Now in these modern times privatization in its variety of forms has become a catchphrase in the Defense Department for increased efficiency. Most western countries with standing militaries rely entirely on the private sector to meet the militaries needs for ammunition and equipment to name just a few. Professionalization of the military has led to the privatization of warfare and an era of persistent conflict some may say, but in shedding the government-owned support …show more content…
With military privatization it is too complex for one to be able to adequately capture in one single term, nor can one contain its moral complexities with a simple good or bad title.
Private corporations have penetrated the western warfront so deeply that they were second only to the pentagon as the largest contributors of coalition forces in 2003 when the war in Iraq first began. (Traynor 2003) Most of the analysts in the Defense department acknowledge now it is not whether to privatize or not, but where do we draw the line and how do we regulate? The private contractors, while extremely necessary for the standing military to sustain combat, have also made it easier for American leaders to pull the war trigger, as the colonels like to say, and to do it without having to have their policies or common sense examined. (Stinchfield, News Week 2017) In an age where the reality is without private contractors the military could not even gas up their Humvees, sit down to dinner or even stock up on the ammunition they need to fight when to we say enough? When do we say we have given way too