The privatization of war
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- The privatization of war
- By Ron Rowe, 15 March 2000. U.S. “military specialty
companies” looking to profit from the U.S. military
“aid” package to Colombia. Also a brief article
on which this article is based, “Contractors playing
increasing role in U.S. drug war,” in Dallas
Morning News, 27 February 2000.
- The privatisation of war
- By Ian Traynor, The Guardian (London),
Wednesday 10 December 2003. Private corporations have
penetrated western warfare so deeply that they are now the
second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq after
the Pentagon. The phenomenon may have reached the point of
no return.
- Privatized violence
- By Sami Makki, Le Monde diplomatique,
November 2004. Iraq chaos reveals the unprecedented scale at
which the US has outsourced functions to private military
companies. They make it easier to project force abroad,
elude the electorate, increase the deniability of dirty
tricks. In developing countries their use reflects
diminishing state power because of slashed budgets.
- The Privatization of War
- Testimony by Niloufer Bhagwat, to World Tribunal on Iraq
(WTI), Global Research, 28 June 2005. The
decision to wage a war of aggression privatized by the Bush
administration representative of and identified with
dominant US Corporations.
- Time for U.S. to Form an ‘Army of
Mercenaries’?
- By Ian Traynor, Editor & Publisher, 21 May
2006. Discussion of a Ted Koppel opinion that considers idea
that corporations assume responsibility for waging wars from
a handicapped political order, which actually seems to be
the trend.
- Blackwater: When Things Go Wrong
- By Bill Sizemore and Joanne Kimberlin, The
Virginian-Pilot, 26 July 2006. The ambush and killing
of a US convoy escort in Fallujah that consisted of
civilians working for North Carolina-based Blackwater
USA. The nation learned with a jolt that there was something
new going on here: Modern warfare was being privatized.