Coquettish Rebirth

Speaking of this security company, Jia Hongjian did a search. , the result was really eye-opening. It turned out that before 99, the largest security company in the world was a parent company in South Africa called eo. eo was one of the 32 subsidiaries of src. The company's business covers mining, air transport leasing, security and so on. These subsidiaries are registered in different places, some in South Africa, some in the Bahamas, and some on the Isle of Man.

The apparent clients of eo are all legal governments recognized internationally. The most famous clients are former Angola and Sierra Leone. But in fact, the real clients of eo are multinational corporations that extract natural resources, such as De Beers Diamond Consortium, British Petroleum, Texaco Oil, Gulf-Chevron Oil, etc.Take Sierra Leone as an example. At that time, the interim government had no money to hire eo to fight against the ruf rebels. However, a company called Zhilu Energy provided credit guarantee for the government of Sierra Leone. The salary of eo was actually paid by Zhilu Energy. And when eo regains a diamond mine, branch energy can obtain 60% of its mining rights. eo entered Angola earlier than Sierra Leone, in 1993, when he was hired by the Angolan government to directly participate in the fight against the rebel opposition.The irony is that when Barrow led the 32nd Battalion in South Africa, he was helping the Angolan opposition against the government, but when he started his own business, he was assisting the enemy of the year to attack the ally of the year.at last. It took eo three years to achieve what the United States, Cuba, the former Soviet Union and the United Nations have failed to achieve for more than two decades—to force UNITA to negotiate peace with the Angolan government. The real employers of eo in Angola are oil companies and diamond companies, such as Canadian traditional oil and gas companies, and branch energy companies.

The UN has been asking the government of Sierra Leone to terminate its contract with eo.The terms of the peace agreement signed between the government of Sierra Leone and Ruf in 1997 included the withdrawal of EO and all other foreign troops.Ironically, when eo withdraws, ruf quickly fights back.For the group of South African mercenaries in the movie "Blood Diamond", some people say it is an allusion to eo.In fact, the time background in this movie is in 1999.At that time, ruf had already attacked the suburbs of the capital of Sierra Leone, not to mention that eo had already withdrawn from Sierra Leone, and had already closed at the beginning of that year, how could it be possible that it was still active in Sierra Leone?However, the influence of the movie was so great that De Beers spent 600 million pounds in advertising to fight against it. Many diamond dealers advertised that their diamonds were not sourced from war-torn African countries.

The founder of eo, Ibin Barrow, used to be the second in command of the 32nd Battalion Air Reconnaissance Team in South Africa.After retiring, he became a staff member of the National Cooperation Bureau. The National Cooperation Bureau is a racial oppression organization that specializes in opposing the African National Congress. Its main activities include intelligence work and assassination operations.When South Africa abolished apartheid in 1989, ANC leader Nelson Mandela disbanded the unit tasked with racial repression.due to unemployment.Barrow simply jumped out to start a business and established an eo company, all staffed by former comrades-in-arms and colleagues.

eo always wins more with less, and with few casualties, compared with the number of enemies killed by them is simply disproportionately high.On the one hand, this is because the soldiers of eo are well-equipped. They have armed helicopters, armored vehicles and howitzers, as well as big killers such as fuel-air bombs.Most of their enemies only have light weapons and not much heavy equipment; on the other hand, it is also because EO soldiers are veterans from South Africa and other countries.They are well-trained and have high military quality, but most of their opponents, such as ruf, do not have enough training. Just like the plot in the movie "Blood Diamond", there are many children among the strong men captured.Send out a rusty ak and a bunch of bullets, just learn how to shoot a gun and send it to the front line.

These rebels are okay to use against ordinary people or the Sierra Leonean government forces of the same level, but they are far from well-equipped and well-trained mercenaries.Once in a mine in Kono Province, only 60 eo soldiers withstood the attack of thousands of rufs for a week. During this period, eo soldiers always adhered to one principle: never enter a battle without helicopter fire support area.

eo can attract many experienced foreign veterans.On the one hand, it is because of the high wages, and it is not easy for veterans to find a good job-especially those who come out of the special forces. Apart from fighting, they have no other skills that can make a lot of money.On the other hand, it is also because of the good benefits.Some articles including "World Military" mentioned eo's "full medicine guarantee", which actually means that if there is a "work-related fatal accident" during the battle, the medicine and medical treatment will be free, and the insurance company will lose money if it dies.Up to now, if there is any security company or mercenary company that dare not buy insurance for the "temporary workers" below, it is estimated that no one is willing to sign a contract with them.

Then after such an eo company closed down, now the world's largest security company or mercenary company industry is a company called mpri.The full name of mpri is Military Resource Consulting Company. Blackwater is synonymous with mercenary companies for many people who don’t understand. But in fact, mpri is the leader in this industry in the United States, and has business in more than 40 countries. The company's branches are all over the country and overseas. The smallest single order is 400 million US dollars, and the usual single order is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.It can be said that mpri far exceeds Heishui regardless of company size or business volume. Heishui just catches up with the time. To use someone's description, it is: when everyone is disguised in auspicious clothes, Heishui is standing in the open The place learns from other people's black uncles to play street performance art.The reputation of Heishui basically depends on negative news.

mpri was established in 1987 by a joint venture of eight retired senior military officers in Delaware. The company is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, close to the location of the Pentagon. This is to facilitate direct contact between company staff and the Pentagon. The current president of mpri is a retired army general who once served as the commander of the US Army in Europe, and General Harry-Soyster was once the head of the US Defense Intelligence Department.The other members of the board of directors also have many backgrounds. They have all served as the commander of the US Joint Special Operations Command, the commander of the Southern Combat Command, the consultant of the US Central Intelligence Agency, and the president's military staff.No wonder some people joked that mpri has a higher density of generals than the pentagon, so mpri has always been called a mini pentagon in the industry.Since the business of PMC needs to be brought into business, the relationship network is very important. It is precisely because of the relationship between its senior management and the Pentagon that mpri was able to obtain many military contracting projects related to the US military.So who said that the United States does not pay attention to power-for-money transactions.That's bullshit!Why does this mpri company hire those people?Isn't it just to use the contacts of these former senior officials?Isn't it just to pay them and let them help with business?

In addition to such an mpri company, there is also a company in the United States called Daiyang International, which is also very powerful!More than 96% of the company's revenue comes from the U.S. federal government.Note that they are military contractors of the U.S. military, and the money Blackwater received from the U.S. military is less than a fraction of Deyang Company, but please don’t misunderstand that Deyang Company specializes in fighting for U.S. soldiers. Why?please watch the following part.In 1951, Daiyang Company's predecessor, Land Air Corporation, won its first contract from the U.S. Air Force Logistics Command, responsible for providing mission support and base-level maintenance services for U.S. military aircraft and their weapon systems on a global scale .Since then, Daiyang Company has been the military logistics contractor of the US Department of Defense from the land and air company to the present.Whether it is fighter jets, bombers, helicopters or other aircraft, the maintenance and transportation of U.S. military aircraft are basically the responsibility of their companies. At present, the U.S. military has staff from their companies in all major theaters to provide ground logistics services for combat aircraft, such as Bolivia, Bosnia, Somalia, Angola, Haiti, Colombia, Kosovo and Kuwait.

At the same time, their company now also provides many security contracting services. For example, on October 2003, 10, three employees of Deyang Company were killed in the Gaza Strip when they were working as security guards for American diplomats.The security work of Afghan interim President Karzai was also contracted by the employees of his company at the expense of the US Foreign Ministry.In Iraq, the three American companies with the most security contracts are Daiyang, Blackwater and Clover Jungle.In addition, Daiyang company also provides training for most of the Afghan and Iraqi police forces, and also provides training for border police and paramilitary forces in Pakistan.within the United States.Their company also has security contracts, such as the 15 Louisiana and surrounding areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, their company was hired by the state government to participate in policing and post-disaster reconstruction work.Even international organizations such as the United Nations are among the clients of their company.

In addition, as a mercenary company, Daiyang Group also participates in some relatively direct operations, such as their secret presence in some troubled areas in Africa and South America.However, most of the actions that have made it to the table are related to anti-drugs.For example since the late 1990s.The U.S. pays private contractors about $12 billion to assist the Colombian military in quelling the insurgency and eradicating the drug trade, and Dai Yang International was awarded part of the contract for the work.They help the Colombian National Police to destroy coca crops with aerial spraying of defoliants and to manually eradicate coca and poppy fields.Employees of the company also participated in direct combat in Colombia's counter-insurgency operations, and were said to do "wet work".In 1992, a helicopter of their group was shot down during an anti-drug operation in Peru, resulting in the death of three group employees, indicating that Peru also hired Dai Yang International to carry out armed anti-drug operations.And they are currently working in Afghanistan to destroy illegal opium poppy cultivation.

Relatively speaking.Jia Hongjian felt that such a Daiyang International would be more peaceful?It seems to be a little more gentle, not like Heishui who specializes in black work, but more of a logistical one?Maybe such a company would accept Jia Hongjian's contract to strengthen security?Such a contract is estimated to be able to handle several million dollars? (To be continued..)