Commercialized Security: The Limelight of Private Military Companies

Do you know how America became a global superpower? Well, dissecting the tale would take days. Long story short, American expansionism, which of course did not occur overnight, is one of the biggest revolutions in world history. Starting with the battles of Lexington and Concord until World War II, the United States showed practically all of the characteristics of a great power; it stood ahead or nearly ahead in terms of population, geographic size and location on two oceans, economic resources, and foremost, military power.