The private contracting surge into Afghanistan
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
05/14/09
Conveniently short on real details — perhaps deliberately so — the Obama administration’s new war strategy for Afghanistan has yet to acknowledge the huge footprint the United States will have on that country in another year’s time. One thing is becoming clear, though: it will be a larger footprint than we had anticipated a year ago. In fact, it already is. Just like in Iraq, a ’shadow army’ has been serving alongside American servicemen and women in Afghanistan. So far, it is at least 70,000 strong. Private contractors — now indispensable to the U.S. military as it wages war — are expected to grow and much surpass that number as U.S. troops there double from 35,000 to nearly 70,000 by 2010...
http://tinyurl.com/o5bz3j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
by Kelley B. Vlahos
05/14/09
Conveniently short on real details — perhaps deliberately so — the Obama administration’s new war strategy for Afghanistan has yet to acknowledge the huge footprint the United States will have on that country in another year’s time. One thing is becoming clear, though: it will be a larger footprint than we had anticipated a year ago. In fact, it already is. Just like in Iraq, a ’shadow army’ has been serving alongside American servicemen and women in Afghanistan. So far, it is at least 70,000 strong. Private contractors — now indispensable to the U.S. military as it wages war — are expected to grow and much surpass that number as U.S. troops there double from 35,000 to nearly 70,000 by 2010...
http://tinyurl.com/o5bz3j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
rudkla - 14. Mai, 15:12
