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“or Alison Stanger's One Nation Under Contract. Brooks had marked his copies, filling margins with pencil comments and tagging pages of greatest consternation with yellow post-its. He disagreed with Singer, who had called the industry a $100…”
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But the fact that they could grow opium there was kind of like a twofer. Peter Singer, a foreign policy fellow at Brookings Institute, wrote Corporate Warriors and said that DynCorp's mission went well beyond spraying, excuse me, plants. He…
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the British government is not a party to the contract, nor was it involved in any way in its negotiation, unquote. But the American response showed far less awareness of AGIS and was more focused on the contract itself than on Spicer. In a …
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Among Singer's concern was the fact that the private military company would be overseeing others. Quote, a core problem of the military outsourcing experience has been the lack of coordination, oversight, and management from the government …
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Singer, who was the author of the 2002 book Corporate Warriors, was also critical of the fact that it was a cost plus contract, which meant that Pentagon would cover all of the company's expenses plus a predetermined percentage of whatever …
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Singer believed that it was possible that the people awarding the contract might not know anything about ages past because the responsibility and the funding of private military contracts is spread out over the government to some of the str…
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The contract involves coordination of security support for reconstruction contractors and for the protection of their personnel, unquote. After that, he was quiet and apparently out of the country for the summer. The British Foreign Office …
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am doubtful that the folks awarding the contract had any sense of Spicer's history, he told the Globe reporter. The Army never even bothered to Google this guy to find out who he was. Backing up such notions were the comments of the U.S. Ar…
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As author and Brookings Institute fellow Peter Singer later wrote, quote, the privatization effort was one of the quiet triumphs of the war, unquote. LogCap was successful enough to prompt strategies of outsourcing a vast array of other stu…
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Though still smiling, Brooks would become testy at times, especially when the mercenary words were used to describe any part of the industry. He preferred private security companies, and he might spend more than a few minutes complaining ab…
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or Alison Stanger's One Nation Under Contract. Brooks had marked his copies, filling margins with pencil comments and tagging pages of greatest consternation with yellow post-its. He disagreed with Singer, who had called the industry a $100…
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was convinced that private military companies, armed or unarmed, were already part of the establishment. Unlike Brooks, he agreed with Singer about the size of the industry. And unlike Eisenberg, he could never describe his close observatio…
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monograph. She wrote, quote, it has been observed that war is too important to be left to the generals. Industry analyst Peter Singer added that war is far too important to be left to private industry. Americans cannot abdicate their respon…
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Four seminars of 16 students each examined what was clearly a major shift in Americans' military history. The general himself had studied many written documents and books on the topic, ranging from histories about the mercenary trade over t…