Afghanistan War event
also: the Afghan drug war, war in Afghanistan
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Well, I only have nine five years later. I don't have 10. So that becomes a deficit. And the same thing at scale with everything in the Department of Defense. You know, part of the missing material is what we left in Afghanistan. Part of th…
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You know, OK, I got not I ordered 10. Now I have nine. And let me just give one to, well, the International Syndicate and they can cover it up somewhere. I just use that as a very simplistic example because that's not exactly how it happens…
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And they don't have 10 of the Stinger missiles because somehow they came up missing. And this just accumulates. We've got people in like 400 to 600 different locations with all kinds of shit all over the world. But don't they write down any…
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Three of these airplanes, 15 tanks or whatever, however many bullets, however many bombs, whatever it is that they left behind. Isn't there like an inventory that was left behind? That way they can write it off and just say, OK, this stuff …
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of, you know, again, I'm just going to use round, easy numbers, 10 helicopters. And I come back and nine of my helicopters got left in Afghanistan. You know, I make a report. There's no writing off. I have one helicopter on there. I don't p…
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That was just icing on the cake. The Playas Training and Research Center, as the new facility began being called, would offer coursework such as analysis of anarchist literature, but the main feature would be the realistic training facility…
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formerly the School of Americas. The new play has opened in 2004, and for the next seven years, its client base consisted mostly of first responders and U.S. military personnel, like local cops. Then in March 2011, its clientele shifted to …
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This one served law enforcement agencies throughout the Midwest, while the bigger facility was under contract to the Pentagon for intelligence analysis, specifically for NATO and, weirdly enough, the Afghan drug war, which we know wasn't a …
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The number of personnel under the authority of the U.S. ambassador was set to increase from 8,000 to 16,000, half of which would be private military contractors. Some were contracted as armed guards protecting personnel leaving the embassy,…
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as it was consistent with the secrecy of a national security state. In August 2011, after three years of studying federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Commission on Wartime Contracting issued a final report that sent a message o…
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And the foreword began, quote, contractors represent more than half of the U.S. presence in the contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, at times employing more than a quarter million people. It ended with a strident warning. Delay a…
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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…
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For those following the saga of private military contractors, Eisenberg praised the hard work of the commissioners, who had conducted numerous hearings and hundreds of interviews, had traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan, and had worked out of …
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about the U.S. dependency on the industry. Quote, because the heavy reliance on contractors have overwhelmed the government's ability to conduct proper planning, management, and oversight of the contingency contracting function, the commiss…
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Other parts just didn't seem possible. For example, the category of spending called miscellaneous foreign contractors totaled $38 billion out of $206 billion spent on contracts since 2002. The commissioners could not determine what that cat…
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After a thorough analysis of spending, they calculated that from at least $31 billion to as much as $60 billion had been lost. Clearly, if one could bring back Willie Sutton from the dead, he would be a private contractor, not a bank robber…
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for the job of managing the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after troop withdrawals. The commissioners claimed the State Department had not made necessary changes for good governance of private contractors. It would soon have the auth…
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An earlier study had shown that many of the contractor abuse in Iraq for the first several years were caused by those working for the State Department, not the Pentagon. The commissioners stressed that this could result in significant addit…
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though close to the heart of the reason for America's dependence on private military contractors, because they don't want dead military and they don't give a crap about dead contractors. Between October 2001 and July 2011, there had been 2,…
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arm-to-arm combat, but they had a third of the casualties compared to U.S. military who was involved in hand-to-hand combat. And in the period from 2009 to 2011, contractors' deaths, including local and third country nationals, actually exc…
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Private contractor casualties were never publicized. After troop withdrawal, the American public would not have any idea about the full human cost of American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter where the U.S. sent private milita…
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This was because the government's figures were based on insurance claims and many foreign contractor employees from third parties may have been unaware of they even had an insurance capability. Because they didn't speak English. Of equal co…
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like Nambia, Uganda, Mozambique, and Burundi, an issue that had been discussed in 2007. In an earlier report in 2010, the commission had revealed an array of statistics regarding the nationalities of the private military contractor employee…
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South African nationals. Mostly former police officers and soldiers were working in Iraq, being paid by the United States. Other countries supplying workers were Nepal, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Honduras, and our all-time favorite, the Philipp…
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The need for reform is urgent. The last line of the report was the nation's security demands nothing less than sweeping reform, unquote. Because of the commissioner's report and all that it revealed about the U.S. dependence on private mili…
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2011 would prove to be a banner year for the industry. It was the first year since 2004 that there was no shocking headlines drawing nationwide attention to private military contractors. It was the year that the UK and the US, in response t…