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Being a student of modern English literature originally, the art of war seems to be a far cry from my field of studies. However, since I have been working in the Ministry of Defence for many years now, I could not avoid the encounter with the question of the future of the state military. Serving at a time of transition, under the aegis of constant reorganization and down-sizing of personnel and troops, as it was common in several countries after the end of the Cold War, my attention was unavoidably attracted to the thriving private military industry and the outsourcing of military tasks as a general tendency in the Western countries. How can it be possible that private companies not only flourish next to state militaries but are often relied on as providers of essentially military (even combat) services? Why is there a market for them? How about their cost-effectiveness and reliability as compared to those of the regular militaries? And finally: what will be the future of this uneasy competition between the private sector and the state domain?

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2009.10.19.