Friday
Jul092004
Privatizing War
Friday, July 9, 2004 at 03:58PM
The use of
mercenaries was once a dirty, little secret most governments were loath
to acknowledge. But today they're called private military contractors
and perform almost every function essential to military
operations. The Pentagon employs more than 700,000 private
contractors, and at least $33 billion of the $416 billion in military
spending overwhelmingly approved by the Senate last week will go to
PMCs. [more]