Ed Cardin person
also: Major General Ed Cardin, General Cardin, Cordon, Cardin
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Ed Cardin member_of
19th Infantry Division book_quoted
“was old news to Major General Ed Cardin. In February 2012, he returned for a few weeks to the U.S. from South Korea, where he now commanded the Army's 2nd Infantry Division. He was more aware of the dependence on private military companies …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 20:42
Ed Cardin member_of
Coalition Provisional Authority book_quoted
“was old news to Major General Ed Cardin. In February 2012, he returned for a few weeks to the U.S. from South Korea, where he now commanded the Army's 2nd Infantry Division. He was more aware of the dependence on private military companies …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 20:42
Ed Cardin exposed
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“private military security corporations, said Cordon. The drawdowns reshape the force. We'll contract it when we need to. Nowhere is this more evident than in replacing military support to the U.S. State Department with private military comp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 21:39
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was old news to Major General Ed Cardin. In February 2012, he returned for a few weeks to the U.S. from South Korea, where he now commanded the Army's 2nd Infantry Division. He was more aware of the dependence on private military companies …
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in planning and executing the army's transition out of Iraq. During that time, he had witnessed firsthand how indispensable the contractors had become. And because the U.S. was legally required to withdraw all military forces by the end of …
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private military security corporations, said Cordon. The drawdowns reshape the force. We'll contract it when we need to. Nowhere is this more evident than in replacing military support to the U.S. State Department with private military comp…
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viewed them as weapons. Doing this could attract the kind of attention to the topic that it deserved. The way it works is that we must use them before someone else does. That's just crazy. In that way, we are most certainly, they are most c…
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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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and unarmed drones under Pentagon and CIA authority in Iraq. Indeed, drones were another example of the State Department's takeover of functions that were normally military functions. Cardin's concern about the role of private military comp…
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would be two layers removed from the citizens of the nation, a machine operated by an employee of a private company. The more the citizen was removed from combat, did not see the blood of combat, the casualties, the ramifications of war, di…
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The general, trained as he was to foresee potential dangers, said, quote, In one year, it is hard to imagine all that's transpired. Last year, in 2011, only the military was talking about drones. Now everyone is. And we still don't have ade…
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Triple Canopy, DynCorp, and other private military companies, Academy was also a member of the largest drone lobby in America. That was called the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. The American public was unaware of the…
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Cardin knew most of the world did not distinguish between public and private sector security and defense in the United States military missions. This concerned him, as it did the participants in the study. And although their case study for …
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because of the hepatitis C. Qadim was not aware of the special study of the private military companies at the Command and General Staff College that spring, nor did he and General Cardin ever meet. But soon they both would leave Leavenworth…