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Doug Brooks founded
International Peace Operations Association book_quoted
“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…”
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Doug Brooks, the head of the International Peace Operations Association, the industry trade group in the United States, told the press that he considered the auditor's criticism fairly minor. So we don't know who we're hiring. They're not t…
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On the very day that the audit was released, six Blackwater employees were killed when their helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad. The next day, the U.S. contractor Halliburton told the media that insurgent attacks were so intense it m…
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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…
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Peace Operations Association, which started in 2001. Changing the name was his board's decision. And though Brooks didn't advocate the change, he understood why it was necessary. They wanted to disguise paramilitary operations under the nam…
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and military training as peacekeepers. So the website of some of the members might include a snapshot or two of gun-toting men and camouflage fatigues, according to Brooks, but that was just part of their job. Part of his spiel in 2012 was …
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It was about how these companies could turn on a dime and go anywhere and do anything. They were a quick response group, and they used the slogan, FedEx can do things better, faster, cheaper than the U.S. Postal Service, and that's what the…
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Because the industry that had developed was making billions and billions of dollars. In an article in their trade association publication called the Journal of International Peace Operations, Brooks wrote, quote, the private sector continue…
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But, of course, you have to then have conflict. And that's, of course, where the CIA comes in. This was good news for the man who, within a decade of starting the association, had brought in 53 members from around the globe, all of them doi…
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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…
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particularly proud of the association's slick magazine called JIPO, which was more akin to Fortune magazine or Soldier of Fortune, which we know both are propaganda pieces for the CIA. There were savvy full-page ads flashing the proudness o…
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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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He was also annoyed at writers who hadn't bothered to interview him for their articles. That was worse than any label any writer had given him, such as Blackwater's Man in Washington. Brooks would be more than happy to meet with anyone writ…
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If we wish to prevent them from possibly carrying out the same sort of atrocities that has gone on before, it is necessary to pay attention to them and try to ensure that they adhere to the same standards of international humanitarian dicta…
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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…