Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 12/2009

Private Military Companies in the US Stabilization Operation in Iraq

Marcin Terlikowski

August 2008

The Polish Institute of International Affairs

Abstract

The objective of this analysis is to provide a comprehensive review of the activities of private military firms in the American operation to stabilize and reconstruct Iraq. Familiarizing oneself with the concepts and presenting the most important problems associated with private military firms shall allow these considerations to be set in a wider context.