a annoncé en décembre dernier le déploiement accéléré de 30 000 soldats en Afghanistan, un essor des services rendus par des SMP en Afghanistan est imminent. Même si l’Afghanistan peut sembler un marché avantageux pour les SMP internationales, ce dernier a été verrouillé par l’instrumentalisation des normes sous influence américaine. Les récentes déclarations du président afghan contre les activités des SMP augurent d’une évidente incertitude sur le marché afghan, surtout dans le cadre d’un transfert des responsabilités au régime local.
Private Military Companies (PMC) under direction of the Department of State (DoS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) of the United States.
$3 billion USD by year, the market for private military firms in post-war Afghanistan seems to be one of the most lucrative in the world. Nevertheless, international PMC’s should be familiar with the fact that Anglo-Saxon and Afghan PMC’s rapidly saturated the Afghan private security market.
The Anglo-Saxon / Afghan PMC Monopoly
Early entrants in a recently brewed market not only tend to dominate, but ally with local governments in order to preserve their competitive advantage; following this logic, Anglo-Saxon and Afghan PMC’s rapidly instrumentalized the norms regulating the activities of private security operators in Afghanistan to obstruct the arrival of late-coming competitors.
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PMC licensing system (manifestly under American influence) creating a considerable entrance barrier for competition from International PMC’s. At present, the Afghan MoI has only issued 39 PMC operating licenses allocated either to Anglo-Saxon or Afghan PMC’s, and to this day, no date has been given for the expedition of more licenses.
Armed Contractor Oversight Directorate (ACOD) in Afghanistan. The ACOD is responsible on reporting any incidents regarding the use of force of PMC’s under U.S. contract; by subcontracting this supervision role to a non-national agency, constraints related to U.S. domestic politics (ex. The U.S. Congress) can be easily by-passed.
The U.S. Congress to “probe” PMC contractors in Afghanistan
Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC) marking the inconsistencies of private military providers in Afghanistan.
$189 million USD Department of State contract back in December 2009.
The future of the PMC market in Afghanistan
PMC’s should leave the country in the coming two years. As PMC’s do represent a cost-effective solution for the stabilization of post-war countries, the problem does not lies within the services they provide, but rather in the lack of the required international legislation and support to normalize their activities.
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