Paralı Askerlerden Özel Askerî Şirketlere Savunma Yönetimi Teknolojileri Uygulamaları
Defense Management Technology Applications: From Mercenaries to Private Military Companies

Summary/Abstract: In a instantly changing combat environment, combat space needs cannot be postponed and should be supplied timely. One of the consequences of providing all kinds of needs precisely in the battle field is Private Military Company (PMC) formation. Having a role as an important actor in the supply and demand balance of the battlefield, PMCs also appear as an important instrument in the Defense Management of countries. Since PMCs have completed critical missing parts of the battlefields with a wide range of organizational structures and objectives, they have become a topic of discussion and examination in the international arena. This article is based on an analysis from a comparative historical perspective. Two different reader groups were targeted with this study. The first group has been determined as those who are academically interested in defense management, security policies and international relations, and need situational awareness about PMCs. The second group; those who are in the decision-making bodies of the PMCs and who want to take part in or invest in this field have been identified. In order to cover these two target groups, a projection from the past to the future was made. Within the framework of historical development process and definition, service function areas, legal status, the tendency to use it according to the needs of the war in its own ecosystem and technological developments in the near future, possible uses and inferences were made about the use of the PMCs.

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