International Peace Operations Association organization

“And yet again, someone in Congress was sponsoring a bill to rein it in. In August, Representative John Tierney of Massachusetts introduced Oversight and Accountability and More Time Contracting Act of 2012. That created new positions in the…”

“He was also the congressman who introduced the legislation that launched the commission on wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Three years later, he initiated a probe that uncovered an extortion racket initiated by U.S. contractors…”

“The membership roster included all of the big ones, Triple Canopy, G4S, L3, SOC, DynCorp, and Academy. There were half a dozen member firms based in the UAE, mainly Dubai. Others came out of the UK, Bahrain, Cyprus, South Africa, South Kore…”

“which took place in the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, the association celebrated its 10th anniversary and unveiled its code of conduct. It was in step with the one that we've been talking about through this whole book that was set u…”

“Aegis was not a member. Helping its members to succeed, the association retained a well-known lobbying firm called J.A. Green and Company. It was ran by Jeff Green, who was a specialist in defense lobbying, who was the former counsel to the…”

“The membership roster included all of the big ones, Triple Canopy, G4S, L3, SOC, DynCorp, and Academy. There were half a dozen member firms based in the UAE, mainly Dubai. Others came out of the UK, Bahrain, Cyprus, South Africa, South Kore…”

“the International Stability Operations Association. Nothing like kind of hiding what you do in a name, but that's basically what it is. There's a guy that is largely associated with it by the name of Doug Brooks. And Doug Brooks had named t…”

“The membership roster included all of the big ones, Triple Canopy, G4S, L3, SOC, DynCorp, and Academy. There were half a dozen member firms based in the UAE, mainly Dubai. Others came out of the UK, Bahrain, Cyprus, South Africa, South Kore…”

“over the private military contractors. Among them was Illinois Jan Sikowski, who remained frustrated as ever by the challenging of collecting basic information about the industry. There are still no good numbers, she said, and without data,…”

“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…”

“The Little Angels Children's Ballet was a way of sneaking money, illicit funding into the United States when these ballet troops would come over from South Korea into the United States. They were actually smuggling illicit funds. The Manhat…”

“The public indifference has been going on for too long, he said. Eisenberg's interest in private military contractor business went back to something he published in 1997 that was published in 1997 by a D.C.-based Center for Defense Informat…”