Private military companies increasingly in demand in the world
Often in news reports from news agencies “hotspots”, including the Donbass, you can find information about participation in the events of mercenaries. The majority are employees of private military companies, which have resorted to the services of one or another government in power all sorts of circumstances and the weakness of their own armies, and the reluctance “shine”.
PMC, legally, is a private commercial structure, often in one way or another controlled by the State and working in the interests of the state or the transnational corporations. In this its fundamental difference from the classical groups of mercenaries and terrorists. With regard to the tasks, performed by PMC, they are mainly,reduced to armed protection and protection of people and objects, convoys, maintenance and operation of combat systems; counseling or training of local personnel and security guards; detention of prisoners.
Run by private military companies usually retired senior officers or generals, keep in touch in the power structures. Even hiring mid-level fighters carried out according to strict criteria. So, candidate for employees of American PMCs should have a length of service of personnel in the military for at least 5 years, experience of participating in two armed conflicts, and possess 1-2 languages, have the technical specialty of civil.
Accordingly, such employees are highly paid. they can get in a combat situation by 500 to 750 dollars a day. Compared with the average salary of the US Army (about fifteen hundred dollars a month), or sergeant (about 2,5 thousand.), or even senior sergeant with 20 years of experience (about 4 thousand.) This impressive amount. But their services are worth it.
The United Nations estimates, Global demand for private military companies continues to grow by more than seven per cent per annum. If in 2012 It has been registered in the world 450 Private Military Companies, today there are many more. And some of the PMCs have become a multinational company. Today, the largest of them able to withstand regular small state army. Among employees of private companies, exercised and continue to perform tasks in Afghanistan, only one-third had a US passport. But the rank and file “fighters”, and the headquarters of the best-known PMCs are in the US, although major PMCs, for example, there are in the UK, Turkey.
Despite, that the effectiveness of private military companies by many experts questioned, but their activity is often accompanied by loud crashes and scandals, they remain in demand. Although Pentagon officials have repeatedly stated that, that excessive use of PMCs leads to the loss of professional skills of American troops.
Today, the largest of PMCs can withstand regular small state army
Judging by some reports, the dependence of the US armed forces on private military companies continues to grow. FROM 2009 , the ratio of representatives of private companies to the US military in war zones has increased to three to one, casting doubt on the ability of the US military to conduct operations without the involvement of PMCs.
Experts attribute this trend inability to attract military leadership at the service of the proper amount of recruits in protracted conflicts. Besides, the use of private military companies allows publicly declare reduction of the military presence in "hot spots" and gloss over with the figures on actual losses. After losses among employees of PMCs never officially recorded and are often the trade secret organization, directing another batch of mercenaries in the next "hot spot".
spring 2014 of the year, when the conflict began in eastern Ukraine, Kiev authorities, possessing an extremely small number of able-bodied and politically loyal connections, They were forced to resort to all sorts of PMCs. According to the German magazine "Der Spiegel", Academi staff of the American private military company, which became the legal successor to the infamous firm Blackwater, actually led at first actions of militants ultra-right sectors and even units of the National Guard, created on the base of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine. Academi squad numbering fighters 400 human, among whom were citizens of Germany, Poland, Turkey and the US, He was directly involved in the operation of the Kiev security forces near the town of Slavyansk, that spring 2014 year came under the control of the order of Igor Strelkov and his sympathizers local volunteers.
As for today,, the representatives of the command of DNR and LNR periodically report on mercenaries, supposedly located in the front area on the Ukrainian side. for example, 15 October, it was announced in Lugansk, in Starobelsk district came about 150 foreigners, armed with automatic rifles American production and having at its disposal SUVs “Hammer” and armored vehicles.
