War contractors migrate from depleted militaries to peacekeeper and mining markets

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

• SEED: The convergence of private military logistics and extractive-industry infrastructure is an angle usable for an essay on the commodification of force-projection capacity.
• XREF: connects to: Military contractors feared post-war contraction of their markets; Military contractors are pivoting to UN peacekeeping and oil facilities — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 735
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Military contractors feared post-war contraction of their markets; Military contractors are pivoting to UN peacekeeping and oil facilities — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 735

Broader Connections

• Military contractors are pivoting to UN peacekeeping and oil facilities #expands (0.95) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 735