The growing role of Private Military Companies in the UK

[Banquo's Ghost]

The most interesting point I drew from this article isn't the obvious one - does the UK's armed forces really need PMC's to achieve victory? Although I'm interested to hear whether fellow Orgahs believe this to be the case, I'm more interested to hear if you believe this trend towards PMC's marks a decline in the importance of the State and its monopoly on violence, with a return to the more mercenary based system seen in the past, especially in light of events in Libya and the mercanaries fighting there?

Since the Coalition are making half the Army redundant, firing any pilot with training and building an aircraft carrier minus any planes, one imagines that privatising wars is the only way forward for any imperially minded Prime Minister.