Here's a few tender morsels of a reality our darling Big Media would shy upon if it wasn't for a few intrepid journalists who insist in still doing their job.
The US Congress has been trying for 30 years to get a handle on Pentegon spending, with no success. It's a vast sink-hole for money, and the private armaments corporations, with the help of retired generals and admirals, are robbing the US people. They are hired killers of foreign peoples.
If a country can buy weapon systems from another country and pay for instruction in their use it is a short step to mentoring and in some cases contracting officers.
I had no problem working for Halliburton in Croatia. Mentoring. Security wasn't a problem. A company of legionnaires was nearby...
I consider it to be criminal for civilian contractors to be driving unarmoured trucks (in iraq) with no means of self defence.
Blackwater is another matter. I don't class them mercenaries so much as loose cannons. They don't seem too popular anywhere.
If a country can buy weapon systems from another country and pay for instruction in their use it is a short step to mentoring and in some cases contracting officers.
I had no problem working for Halliburton in Croatia. Mentoring. Security wasn't a problem. A company of legionnaires was nearby...
I consider it to be criminal for civilian contractors to be driving unarmoured trucks (in iraq) with no means of self defence.
Blackwater is another matter. I don't class them mercenaries so much as loose cannons. They don't seem too popular anywhere.