PMC @ tentera upahan @ askar swasta

batu_bergolek

aku tak tau la detailnyer, dgr-dgr gitu jer. jadi aku post kat sini manala tau ader bro/sis kat sini yg tau hujung-pangkal cerita ni.

alphawolf

Boleh jelaskan sikit para akhir tu?

tin

apa course yg lu bikin sana?

tangopapa

Diluar pengetahuan wa, ade rakyat msia keje ngan PMC.....

insignia

hehehe...
caya la kat lu bro....

insignia

Private military company
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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 Afghan president, build detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, and pilot armed reconnaissance planes and helicopter gunships to destroy coca crops in Colombia.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] And licensed by the State Department, they are contracting with foreign governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea.[citation needed] The push to privatize such operations may have become prevalent during the administration of George H. W. Bush. It has resulted in PMCs becoming an over $100 billion a year industry.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company

jofizo

boleh idup ka buka co tentera upahan kat m'sia..........

malarky

yela pasal askar kat m'sia semua nye setakat jd guard je lepas pencen......by the way...Frech foreign legion boleh masuk ketagori askar upahan ke tak?

jazim

Askar upahan gak, tapi bukan PMC...ia hanya utk pertahanan negara dan kepentingan strategik Perancis.

powerwoot

Colombia seeks Israeli mercenary
United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC)
The AUC paramilitary group has been linked to the drugs trade
Colombia is to seek the extradition of an Israeli mercenary, convicted in absentia of training death squads, who has been arrested in Russia.

Yair Klein, a former Israeli colonel, was held at a Moscow airport on an international arrest warrant.

He was sentenced to 10 years for training drugs traffickers and right-wing paramilitaries in the 1980s.

Prosecutors say those trained went on to carry out some of the country's most notorious political assassinations.

"Colombia's government is going to make a formal petition to the Russian foreign ministry, so he is sent here to pay his sentence," Colombia's foreign minister Fernando Araujo told reporters.

The Russian authorities have refused to provide details about Klein's capture and have not commented on the extradition request.

Drug cartel

Klein was convicted of training a cadre of killers for the Medellin drug cartel.

They later became the nucleus of the brutal right-wing paramilitary army known as the United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), says the BBC's Jeremy McDermott in Colombia.

The Colombian authorities say Klein was hired by the Medellin cartel of drug lord Pablo Escobar, which set up a training school for paramilitaries and assassins in Colombia.

Escobar was blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in his war against the state, including blowing up an airliner in 1989. He was finally tracked down and shot dead by police in Medellin in 1993.

The paramilitaries are thought to have murdered many thousands of people in their bloody rampage of the past 20 years, our correspondent says.

Klein was arrested and imprisoned in Sierra Leone in 1999 on charges of smuggling arms to the rebel group Revolutionary United Front.

taiaha

One of the PMCs that have been involved in training Msian security forces is Task International. Remember the Commnowealth games? Before I officially joined this forum, I had scanned and posted an article that was originally published in Combat & Survival in that "exclusive forum" which covers Task International's role in training our forces in CRW tactics. Controlled Risks Group is another outfit that may or may not have been involved in training our forces.

From a historical point of view,we can look at the example of the Malacca sultanate that employed Javanese and Persian footsoldiers and Turkish artillerymen.

The Swiss Guards is to my knowledge the oldest mercenary outfit still in existence. Well probably it would be wrong to call them mercenaries now but their forebears were certainly mercenaries.

Are the PMCs operating in Afghanistan and Iraq really mercenaries or just companies that hire out security guards?

Btw, am presenting a paper on this very topic in 2 month's time

insignia

Control Risks Group
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Control Risks Group, with a headquarter in London, was founded in 1975 by Timothy Royle, CEO of the Hogg Robinson insurance and travel group as a subsidiary of Hogg Robinson, it became the first company to provide advice to clients involved in kidnap situations. The company began with the hiring of three SAS officers: Maj. David Walker, Arish Turle, and Simon Adamsdale. Walker would go on to co-found Saladin Security and Keenie Meenie Services of Iran/Contra notoriety. Turle would go on to co-found the Risk Advisory Group after a stint at Kroll, Inc.'s office in London.[1] [2]

In 1981, five members of the management team led by Royle, negotiated a buyout of the company and became an independent employee majority-owned company. Currently, the company is 82% owned by its employees. In 1995, CRG added an investigative division, and by 2003 they had become an international company with more than 600 employees and 18 offices around the world [3].

CRG's four main operating areas are: Political and security risk analysis, confidential investigations, security consultancy, and crisis response. The majority of their clients are large multi-nationals; they state that more than 90 per cent of the FTSE 100 use one or more of their services [4].

CRG has a long history of working with the energy sector, covering ground in Algeria, Angola, Congo, Nigeria, Russia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Dubai, Sudan and Yemen. The main services they provide include political and security risk assessments, supplying site security managers for dangerous projects and kidnap and evacuation consultancy [5]. In Iraq the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have used CRG to provide armed guards for staff in Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Risks_Group

aneep

adakah 'security consultant' boleh dikira askar upahan? bagaimana sykt yg menyediakan force protection kpd aset2 ATM?

-aneep-

alphawolf

Hmm ada terfikir juga...sebab 'askar upahan' @ mercs setakat yang saya faham = orang/syarikat/organisasi yang diupah sesuatu negara untuk berperang bagi pihaknya. Kalau setakat bagi nasihat aje, atau jadi REMF?

aneep

kalau mcm tuh, not many co/ppl fit the definition nowadays, most provide various kinds of military trainings only
at most, close protection for VIPs
the days of men like Mad Mike Hoare and Black Jacques Schramme are probably gone for good (although i would think that freelance assassins are pretty much still available in many parts of the world)

-aneep-

taiaha

Originally posted by aneep at 1-10-2007 04:03 AM
adakah 'security consultant' boleh dikira askar upahan? bagaimana sykt yg menyediakan force protection kpd aset2 ATM?

-aneep-

Well, the answer is both a "yes" and "no". If we look at the services that are offered by the PMCs today and compare that to the services offered by the condotierri during the 13th and 14th century (ok,ok they didn't have tanks or helicopters then but hey bear with me here) i.e to train, to supply know how then they're mercenaries. A very good example would be Executive Outcomers and Sandline (modern example) of PMCs that lived up to the image of a mercenary company. But what about a company like AIROD?

aneep

what if the definition is turned around, a state military employed to protect a business entity? say protecting a gold mine in Papua for example?

-aneep-

taiaha

Originally posted by aneep at 4-10-2007 10:28 AM
what if the definition is turned around, a state military employed to protect a business entity? say protecting a gold mine in Papua for example?

-aneep-

Er, do you mean a nation state asking an ally to help out scenario here? Edit: Ah now I understand what you're saying-a good case would be the TNI guarding the pipelines and installations of an oil company against possible rebel attack in Aceh? Hmm, good question. We can also look at the relationship of petroleum companies with a certain SF unit in our country too as an example.

[ Last edited by  taiaha at 4-10-2007 03:48 PM ]

yipun78

Blackwater faulted by U.S. military: report 18 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military reports from the scene of a shooting incident in Baghdad involving security contractor Blackwater indicates its guards opened fire without provocation and used excessive force, The Washington Post reported on Friday.


At least 11 Iraqis were killed in the September 16 incident, which has outraged Iraqis who see the firm as a private army which acts with impunity.

Citing a senior U.S. military official, the Post said the military reports appear to corroborate the Iraqi government's contention that Blackwater was at fault.

"It was obviously excessive. It was obviously wrong," a U.S. military official speaking on condition of anonymity told the newspaper.

"The civilians that were fired upon, they didn't have any weapons to fire back at them. And none of the IP (Iraqi police) or any of the local security forces fired back at them," the official was quoted as saying.

The Blackwater guards appeared to have fired grenade launchers in addition to machine guns, the official told the Post. He said U.S. soldiers had reviewed statements from eyewitnesses and video footage recorded at the scene.

An Iraqi Interior Ministry official and five eyewitnesses described a second deadly shooting involving the same Blackwater guards minutes after the incident in Nisoor Square, the Post reported.

The FBI is leading a State Department investigation of the incident, which occurred as Blackwater escorted a diplomatic convoy in western Baghdad. The Pentagon and a joint U.S.-Iraqi team are also looking into the incident.

North Carolina-based Blackwater has said its guards reacted lawfully to an attack on the convoy they were protecting.

In previously unpublished remarks prepared for delivery at a congressional hearing, Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince said the Blackwater guards "came under small-arms fire" and "returned fire at threatening targets," the Post reported.

Portions of the remarks dealing with the incident were left out of his testimony after the Justice Department warned Blackwater the incident was under investigation, it reported.

The Post did not say how they obtained these remarks.

Blackwater is also under scrutiny over other shooting incidents involving Iraqis.

yipun78

Blackwater aided by PR giant By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 29 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Public relations giant Burson-Marsteller has vast experience steering companies through tough times. But there's a limit to how much it can help Blackwater USA, a new client that's been battered by negative publicity.


The State Department, which pays Blackwater hundreds of millions of dollars to protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, has stringent rules barring the private security contractor from discussing with the media the details of its work, according to those familiar with the arrangement.

Under those limitations, it's difficult to repair a corporate image, said one official close to Blackwater.

The department allows little room for error. On Sept. 16, Blackwater guards were involved in a shoot-out in Baghdad that left 13 Iraqis dead. Blackwater issued a statement to reporters saying its personnel acted lawfully and appropriately to a "hostile attack" from "armed enemies."

That statement was not cleared first with State officials, a move that prompted complaints from the department because the statement pre-empted official inquiries into the incident. The Iraqis have maintained the Blackwater guards opened fire without provocation.

More recently, Erik Prince, Blackwater's top executive, appeared with department approval before a congressional committee investigating the company. Although Democrats on the committee were sharply critical of Prince, Blackwater representatives viewed his appearance as a rare and welcome opportunity to respond to their critics.

Even in a hostile hearing room, Prince could at least respond, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to reporters.

Burson-Marsteller was brought aboard by the Washington law firms representing Blackwater