The Rise of the Private-Sector Military
私營軍事公司的興起


In era of shrinking armed forces, America turns to private firms to carry out foreign military aid.

在武裝部隊縮減的時代，美國轉而求助私營公司履行軍事援外工作。

[1]Washington--faced with more overseas coitments and fewer resources, the US is increasingly relying on private military companies to do some of its most difficult international jobs.

[2] These aren't the mercenaries who parachute into hot spots, guns blazing, for cold cash. But they're controversial nonetheless.

[3] Over the past 10 years, private military companies, or PMCs, have quietly taken a central role in the exporting of security, strategy, and training for foreign militaries.

[4] In the process, PMCs are raising questions about the privatization of foreign policy, and whether a profit-seeking company can be accountable with limited government oversight. Oftens the companies are training armies in turbulent areas. And, once granted an export license, they are minimally supervised.

[5] "The worry tends to have less to do with the people involved than it has to do with the policy in place," says Deborah Avant, a George Washington University expert who is writing a book on PMCs. "It's a tool for foreign policy in a less public way--and that is not a good thing in the long term."

[1]華盛頓--面對日益增多的外義務和逐漸減少的資源，美國正越來越多地依靠私營軍事公司來完成某些最困難的國際任務。

[2]這些公司不是那種外國雇傭軍，為了冰冷的而空降到熱點地區，槍口噴射著火焰。但是，他們仍然引起了人們的爭議。

[3]在的10年里，私營軍事公司(簡稱PMC)在輸出安全、戰略及訓練外軍等工作中悄悄地扮演著主要角。

[4]與此同時，私營軍事公司也引出了一些有關對外政策私營化的問題，以及一個營利的公司在政府監督有限的況下做事是否會負責任的問題。這類公司經常是到動亂地區訓練部隊。而一旦獲得出口許可，他們就很少受到監督了。

[5]德博拉·阿旺是喬治·華盛頓大學的一位專，正在寫一本有關私營軍事公司的書。他說："這種擔憂與其說是與參與此類活動的人有關，倒不如說更與此項政策是否合適有關。這是對外政策中一種不大公開的手段--長此以往不是件好事。"