Stimson：2025年战区中的雇佣兵-评估私营军事公司如何影响升级管理、威慑和核武器风险报告（英文版）

Private military contractors (PMCs) are no longer novelties of irregular warfare. From Ukraine to Sudan, PMCs are now operating across theaof conflict, taking on roles once considered the exclusive purview of national militaries. But despite their expanding presence, there remains little study of how PMCs’ unique pseudo-state functions, the ambiguous nature of their affiliations, and their independent institutional interests fit within existing U.S. operational concepts and doctrine, particul