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These numbers do not include contractors supporting the CIA or other intelligence community activities, either abroad or in the United States.
Source: Strategic Culture
The US is expanding military operations overseas without actually increasing the number of regular troops deployed there. The military spends great sums to hire private intelligence contractors to do the fighting.
The Department of Defense has for the first time indicated that it was hiring private military contractors (PMC) for operations in Syria.
The nature of the US mission in Syria is highly sensitive; little information is available in open sources. According to a Daily Beast report, military contractors would be working inside Syria alongside the roughly 300 US troops (Special Forces – SOF) already deployed there.
In Iraq the number of contractors working for the Defense Department had just about doubled from 1,300 to 2,500 since last summer. The number is not capped. Most of them are working in security, transportation, construction, communication support, training, management and administrative roles. Nearly 70 percent of the…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Private Military Contractors my ass! They are Mercenaries.
Honey
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You got it, puppies. The American oligarchs sure love their euphemisms, don’t they?
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Another way to escape accountability. Ability to deny that US soldiers are involved, even though funding is through the Pentagon. Yes, they are mercenaries. We need to peel back lots of the secrecy involved in the making and use of the “Defense” budget. The US is not nearly as blameless in its conduct of foreign affairs as it pretends to be – both to its own citizens and to the world at large ( though I’d be willing to bet we Americans are hoodwinked to a far greater degree than the rest of the world is in this regard).
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Excellent point about accountability, Rick. Private security contractors aren’t subject to FOIA requests – for the most part their activities are considered proprietary corporate information.
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Let’s all join hands and sing a rousing chorus of fucking god bless amerikkka!
But really old news ……….
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Absolutely old news, Tube. But Americans have such short memories we need to keep reminding them.
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No question about THAT, DrB.
But it seems to Tubularsock that even after constant reminders they just change the channel using their remote!
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