Guns for hire: a return to the ‘Dogs of War’

By

Ross Hemingway

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A military sweep of a farmer's field near the town of Orgun-E, Afghanistan, 2006.
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War on Want’s new report, ‘Mercenaries Unleashed: The brave new world of private military and security companies’,
coincides with the 65th anniversary of the letter from Victor Gollancz
to The Guardian in February 1951 which led to War on Want’s founding.
Gollancz's letter called for an end to the Korean War; to mark 65 years
of fighting for justice, War on Want is calling for an end to the
privatization of war. Ross Hemingway explains.