Showing posts with label war contractors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war contractors. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

White House Considering Employing Private Contractors To Fight The War In Afghanistan

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USA Today : Trump White House weighs unprecedented plan to privatize much of the war in Afghanistan The White House is actively conside...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Russia Has its Own Version Of Blackwater

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Photos apparently captured by IS fighters appear to show Russian mercenaries SKY News: Revealed: Russia's 'Secret Syria Mercen...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Keeping U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Will Mean Billions For The Contractors

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Kate Brannen, Foreign Policy : Cashing In on the Decision to Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Why Obama dropping his promise to end Ameri...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Private U.S. Contractors Are Returning To Iraq

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A U.S. soldier performs a radio check during a patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad (Reuters/Saad Shalash) As U.S. Tro...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

How Did An Afghan Company With Ties To The Taliban Gain Access To A NATO Airbase?

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U.S. soldiers move in a tactical formation during a partnered patrol in Madi Khel village in Khowst province, Afghanistan, Oct. 20, 2013....
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Party Time In A War Zone

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Cell-phone video provided to ABC News by whistleblowers appears to show U.S. security contractors in Afghanistan getting drunk and using dru...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

More Contractors Than Soldiers Are Dying In Afghanistan

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Contractors from the United States and other countries were wounded in an attack last year in Logar Province, Afghanistan. Umit Bektas/Reute...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

Worst Examples Of Waste In The Iraq And Afghan Wars

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Worst Examples of Taxpayer Money Wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan -- AllGov When the U.S. government wasted somewhere between $30 billion and ...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Is Human Trafficking Occurring On U.S. Military Bases Abroad?

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The Invisible Army -- The New Yorker For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell. ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LA...

U.S. Projects In War Zones Are Not Sustainable

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U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Samuel Toso talks with Mullah Fida Mohammed in Deh Afghanan village, Afghanistan, May 27, 2011. Toso is assigned to P...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

More Waste Revealed From The Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, center, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, left, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, undersecr...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

U.S. Oversight Of War-Zone Contractors Called Weak

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Private security guards pose on a Baghdad rooftop in September 2007. Radio Free Europe US Oversight Of War-Zone Contractors Labeled Weak -- ...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Dogs Of War: Bleeding Heart Contractors

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From UPI: WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Where are the future markets for private security contractors? In recent years, thanks to the wars in...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Obama Urged To Review Use Of Private Firms In War

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Last year, swearing in before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, Blackwater USA Chief Executive Erik Princ...