If you can right now, please join your fellow readers and support our hard-hitting nonprofit journalism with a year-end donation today.In the late 1970s, about four hundred white American men, mostly Vietnam veterans, traveled to Rhodesia and Angola to fight as mercenaries. Donate THE FACTS ARE THE FACTS:īut we need your help to do it: December is the most important month of the year for bringing in the donations that fuel our reporting and we've got an urgent goal of raising $350,000 online by December 31. If you can right now, please join your fellow readers and support our hard-hitting nonprofit journalism with a year-end donation today. Light stuff, right? Mother Jones is not afraid to say we're part of the fight, as Monika Bauerlein writes in her unpacking of the war on democracy and how MoJo must shine a bright light on those trying to undermine it with everything we've got in 2022.īut we need your help to do it: December is the most important month of the year for bringing in the donations that fuel our reporting and we've got an urgent goal of raising $350,000 online by December 31. And journalists had better start shouting it from the rooftops-because we could also help save it. That's the Big Story right now: We could literally lose our democracy. We came a lot closer to an overturned election last year than we ever knew. As the nation celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first English settlement in the New World, the establishment of Jamestown, Va., it coincidentally observed four centuries of PSCs in America.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. That’s why in our first issue of Serviam we trace the history of one element of today’s global stability industry: private security contractors, or PSCs. The spirit that embodied our country’s early pioneers-seeking one’s fortune while generously serving others-ideally motivates the best of today’s providers of private global stability solutions. The immigrants and settlers and the investors who financed their expeditions defended themselves on their own and hired professionals to help them. The early English colonists came to the wilds of America with no military support from their government, despite constant threats from Indians and other European powers. With vision and ingenuity, toughness and grit, they built a new land of prosperity and safety for all who sought to participate. Private initiative, innovators, soldiers, pilgrims and missionaries, and entrepreneurs of all stripes founded what became the United States. To hear Waller tell it in his inaugural editor’s note, private security firms are as central to America’s heritage as the pilgrims themselves. deGraffenreid, is a board member of Frank Gaffney’s hawkish Center for Security Policy), the magazine bills itself as a provider of “accurate and actionable information about private sector solutions to promote global stability.” Serviam is a sleeker, tamer version of SOF, which, like the companies it caters to, is seeking to soften the mercenary image, casting soldiers-for-hire as international peacekeepers. Michael Waller and published by EEI Communications (whose president, James T.
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That time has arrived and the mag is called Serviam (Latin for “I will serve”). It was only a matter of time before an entrepreneurial publisher seized on the private military contracting boom-and all those untapped ad dollars-in order to give Soldier of Fortune, long the preeminent mag for hired guns, a run for its money.
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