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“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 16:49
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the likelihood of catastrophic instability, which, of course, she foretold because that's exactly where we were prior to Trump getting back in office. Just the opposite of what they say. What is the impetus for peace if you're making profit…
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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…
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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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Quote, they aren't mercenaries, and the truth is they are mostly decent people out there working hard, though not necessarily in the public interest, unquote. That didn't mean that he didn't look at the industry through the same lens as Bro…
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Eisenberg was especially frustrated by trying to define precisely what the industry encompassed. No term fully captures what they do. It helps them to be undefined. If no one knows exactly what they do, it's hard to protest what they do. Ei…
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Mine is a Mr. Spock approach. I am not for them or against them. It is a fascinating phenomenon, and I track it partly as a labor of love. Although he unrelenting in his quest to raise the curtain on many of the uses of private military com…
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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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was not incorporated until the year after the shooting and was not under the AGES contract with the DOD in 2005. Legally, neither the British AGES nor the American version could be held accountable for the shooting, a fact as solidly ground…
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in part because none of the facts in the shooting incident were in dispute, and partly because nothing had ever appeared in the media about the case at all. In his column for the Huffington Post, Eisenberg juxtaposed the bad news for Kadim …
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firm won a prestigious security contract for the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 Olympics in London. Eisenberg wrote, one wonders if the Olympic Delivery Authority was aware that it was Aegis security contractors who shot and perman…
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as he returned to Baghdad International Airport after an intelligence mission in June 2005. The shooting, Eisenberg stressed, occurred at a place where there were no ongoing hostilities nor credible threats of imminent hostilities. And he e…
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Most of the actual people were contracted out. They weren't on Aegis' books. They were the money funnel. On the occasion of the audit, columnist Dave Eisenberg wrote a piece for UPI with the tagline, Dogs of War, Contractor Fulfilling a Con…
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to do what it was contracted to do without waste, fraud, and abuse? They noted that, of course, the answer is going to be yes. For a company with a history like Aegis, to reach this point was monumental. Aegis, wrote Eisenberg, was now cons…
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or domestic response to a national security, like a massive terror attack or natural disaster. Reform will save lives and money and support U.S. interests. Reform is essential now. When David Eisenberg, the Beltway writer who persistently p…