After 20 years, Pentagon still lacks control over hired guns
A new GAO report finds gaping holes in oversight in the military’s unwieldy private security contractor biz.
David Isenberg is an independent researcher and writer on U.S. military, foreign policy, and national and international security issues. He a senior analyst with the online geopolitical consultancy Wikistrat and is a U.S. Navy veteran. He is the author of “Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq”. His blog, The PMSC Observer, focuses on private military and security contracting, a subject he has testified on to Congress.
A new GAO report finds gaping holes in oversight in the military’s unwieldy private security contractor biz.
A UN report says the Blackwater founder violated arms embargoes by sending weapons and men to aid militia chief Gen. Khalifa Heftar.
The co-founder of the notorious ex-private mercenary firm Blackwater has hinted about getting the band back together.
Erik Prince is America’s poster child for our current stereotype of a war profiteer, wannabe mercenary, and perhaps the E.F. Hutton of all warmongers.