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Wither, James K. (2005) 2005. “European Security and Private Military Companies: The Prospects for Privatized ‘Battlegroups’”. Connections: The Quarterly Journal 4 (2): 107-26. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11610/Connections.04.2.14.
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