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46 Armed Forces & Soc'y 3 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/amdfcsad46 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Armed Forces & Society 2020, Vol. 46(1) 3-24 The Corporate War Dead: © The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions New Perspectives on the DOI: 10.1177/0095327X18811375 journals.sagepub.com/homne/afs Demographics of American OSAGE and British Contractors Ori Swed', Jae Kwon2, Bryan Feldscher2 and Thomas Crosbie3 Abstract From an obscure sector synonymous with mercenaryism, the private military and security industry has grown to become a significant complementing instrument in mil- itary operations. This rise has broughtwith it a considerable attention. Researchers have examined the role of private military and security companies in international relations as well as the history of these companies, and, above all, the legal implications oftheir use in the place of military organizations. As research progresses, a significant gap has become clear. Only a handful of studies have addressed the complex of issues associated with contractors' demographics and lived experience. This article sheds some light over this lacuna, examining contractors' demographics using descriptive statistics from an original data set of American and British contractors who died in Iraq between the years 2003 and 2016. The article augments our understanding of an important population of post-Fordist-contracted workforce, those peripheral workers supplementing military activity in high-risk occupations with uncertain long-term outcomes. Keywords PMSCs, demography, post-Fordism, new public management, outsourcing security ' Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX, USA 2 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA 3 Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark Corresponding Author: Thomas Crosbie, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark. Email: thcr@fak.dk