Military contractors are pivoting to UN peacekeeping and oil facilities

Evidence

In one of the conference’s final conversations, contractor and military representatives discussed fears about the military market drying up as U.S. and European governments cut defense budgets. Many agreed that contractors would increasingly move to build, supply, and maintain bases for UN and other international peacekeepers, as well as for oil and mining companies, whose extraction facilities often look like military bases already. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 735

Categorization

• QUESTION: A follow-up: has this predicted pivot to peacekeeping/extraction contracts actually happened since 2012? Check on U.S. contractors’ current work for UN missions and oil companies.
• SEED: The observation that oil and mining extraction facilities ‘look like military bases already’ suggests a strong essay on militarized private infrastructure.