any military you take a sacred oath that you're going to serve and fight for your country and necessary die to protect a way of life one that you believe in i am an american soldier i'm a warrior and a member of a team. that will never accept defeat. at least i will never win i'll never leave a fine comrade it's the complete opposite in a private military world you look at the budget first the loyalty of these companies and these businessmen's change depending on market forces. we operate in the world's challenging complex emerging markets the middle east is absolutely cool for other business today. the sooner we can are in pal and we perform in the right on. this industry is not just what you see is what you get. when you see

a company you don't know exactly who's working for them they hire and they sometimes create what we call subs sub contractors. there's been commanders in afghanistan who just simply say we don't know the subs of the subs the subs are. so you have all these like layers of a contract. a level forty control starts to fade quickly the deeper you go from the top to the bottom. united states army and the

military in general is so reliant on the private sector i would call that dependency by we don't know who is the on the ground presence of these companies overseas we just don't know. it's crazy and actually it's really crazy in iraq. because since the first day i stepped my fits in iraq every day there was a bomb and they bombed the village there is a rockets. every day we have rockets fired. every day i heard gunshots every day a bomb in income in income in all my good it bomb went you know what soups and it's damage for all of our guards four of the civil union guys well trained guys

as soon as a ridge in iraq i called my mom i said mom i'm in iraq she said oh what's i said i'm in iraq no no you're kidding i said no moment i'm in iraq i said mom just watch the number what's the number and she watched the number. she was she was just she was yelling oh that is what you do yeah i said no mom there is no problem here we have to see if we are not using a weapon we are you here is does our my mom i said we are doing just domestic walk in iraq she told all the neighbors their own son my son he's in iraq you know he's doing a cooking job not with webb on. just after the war in syria you know i couldn't make it up because there was no job by

then. and my friend calls me it's told me that's a. very civic and see they were recruiting guys so-called so it's also iraq if you just use weapons and who are well trained in it come for comply on. the first time i arrive to to this training camp can plan iraq's together with that to two white men found from the security company. went driving out in this small track and it's what's so was the camp through this

forest a landscape not so far away from from the airports and when we enter the camp and get out of the car the first thing we see is this a gun an instructor who isn't shouts of the training out there making the recruits line up in order to receive these guys from the past security company. direct my care for iraq. with mike in from iraq you said that he needed. it was a shallow fighter who supposed to go to europe say not on ice you know basic i want weapons uses only people that you can't qualify to go to iraq. from a shell young government is active the iraqis. it was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take no good troublemakers

something away to back for a couple of years and then returning them after two years with money and from that overseas deployment this could serve to stabilize security and cia on. in the beginning of the training course the one other real weapons presence so they're using the set i wouldn't sticks. it was fast after a couple of days and so the training that the weapons and arrived there will be lined up at this and within sables within in the middle of the big camp here they are.

i don't. it was this tension and excitement those attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real ok. for many of the who cruises and the first time holding a weapon since and then of the civil war. many were starting to shake and some were even starting to cry when the when the sioux got the weapons not being able to to handle them. at the end of it i'll provide a compliant backing for iraq when i know war and. i mean one has come. from the fast i thought that we've been supposed to know and i'm seeing this in and

something. most notable for now it's. a device. supposed to have born again i said. i've got quite good in what. i saw. and i live where point. this young and well what has been flipped mainly by young converts and. looking for young men to perform military jobs the chance of a quite good that they have also been.

owes it to. but you never can mean. it took my father a memoir and put it on the floor. as a nice little part of i will grant you i will close my heart up. to the day do you do one look like those who want to. do with me to go give you a glimpse they fed through to us us you know i don't know what's right what's he talking about. to keep.

right. on. i don't. need to watch you all good and i've got to show you died to have the money to fund up this if not god every day remember. he my father came i want out next i get i would keep. this it's little. lads. i said no i don't want a tree so i start to i go to this that's a used. stuck in my boat that's a mock me and my boat is that bond in my own it's in order and drop. this in the us to cry for more to get the gun makes you forget about you or your

motor so i start says. cool my house. when i was young. at a lot of things that i've been scindia. not a day which is not good for human beings. or when they do so because. of the job have you come on down when does it go the people you have to go to bed then you don't go dutch you two have been killed. when we think of war and the warrior who fights we have this image and our mind of

a man in uniform. and uniform means they're fighting as part of a military serving the nation because if they fight for their force political patriotism and yet when you look at the wars of the twenty first century they don't match those assumptions anymore now we have outsourced a lot of our warfare to private military companies. the background of this changing nature of war and who fights that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself as. until the early ninety's the security industry is in dhaka mucky industry.

out right mustn't he's bringing down governments for the cash can you explain what exactly sound fine internationally is and what you do in. sunline. it is a company that provides military consultancy services for governments all logical freshens. at the time the idea was to get very posh english officers on top of these private military companies and tim spicer was an officer in the military and british military he got out and was asked to come help with a company called sandline. to spices a rival gave an almost instant sense of respectability to what had previously been a must in the world and i don't personally have any difficulty with what must be i just don't like the image that comes out in most people's mind the first time i met

tim spice i was interviewing him for a newspaper he ditching in charming public school educated goal itself and that meeting of the a feature of the construe before then it changed the agenda global agenda and what the problem is your company was. tim spicer was considered a respectable head of a mercenary organization but at first his business affairs didn't go to well it was dogged by failure for example he got a phone call from a fellow indian with a tie passport who was under house arrest. for a financial scandal and he contacted tim spicer and wanted him to restore the president of syria i don't mean. once the president surely it was back in power this guy would then get his contracts for diamonds and be able to make

money. but it didn't work out that way. the company started life run by tip spicer's focus on a couple of hundred best occasion by customs and excise but he's accused of smuggling weapons illegally. when a private firm gets involved in foreign politics for the benefit of a criminal you have to stop and ask ok this really happened or is this the fictitious you know james bond type story but as it was a true story. these things tended to happen systems or government runs that he'd always somehow managed to get assigned the recently retired british guy to do that a band of ministers is safely back in this country so has this put him up his new career as a hired gun going to continue with this new new business of heroes sandline international well i think we've got to a number of lessons to learn from this particular. episode i think that we will

continue to try and develop our business as long as we can do it in a. sensible way. sandline eventually collapsed under the weight of bad publicity. was that it's idea been the short term you can say that was the most successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to its shelves and civil. it launched him spice on a career where he was able to found what would then become one of the most significant for the movie companies in the world. he just. i. love. our new

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refugees have lived in pakistan for decades those are the headlines the news continues here and al-jazeera child soldiers reloaded by phone. when nine eleven occurred everything changed. the contractor content of the armed forces went up astronomically at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq. ideologically republicans my party wanted every single public function to be scrutinized analyzed evaluated and if

possible privatized general shinseki the head of the us army at the time testified to congress and said if we're going to do iraq it's going to take several hundred thousand u.s. troops and very quickly the rest of the bush administration reacted negatively and he's absurd that's crazy it's not going to require those amount of troops and they actually simply drummed him out of the military it turned out he was right we did deploy several hundred thousand forces it was just through private military. so in the early days of iraq it was a gold rush you had companies coming out of nowhere including blackwater who was really like

a cowboy but nobody had any control anybody doing anything with fire arms in this country to say their private military company. was an a.t.m. for these companies the basic idea of a contractor versus recruiting. training in supporting military vets is that there is room hiring a prostitute or getting married. so instead of a soldier who has an x. cost of a year now being a contractor who's being paid a times ten. well what has happened is that america has basically married a prostitute and has been active in them for a very long period of time almost to be a. good example of. it's not invade a country and it has been a few. but none a few things in russia just search around the shelf and i think we're seeing. this now we will go wrong movies where it's very. contractors offer some

gray area benefits to politicians everybody's concerned like we have a thousand boots the ground nobody ever asks how many contractors there is don't like hard to turn the ground. so if the u.s. military wanted to put one thousand boots on the ground and there's four thousand contractors it's a way of you know having a force of five thousand but without politically risky. be done without trying to meet. you're shooting at you it just you yes yeah yeah but other. than that bang bang so did did you get a skirt shoot first of it shot in front of you know a british shade in his car. and they did exactly.

this only right. the security companies had the sensitivity of something as civilians would often if not always. get caught in the crossfire. what governments have always done is they would do two things at once. you fight and you win hawks mines. private lynch a complete didn't do that. on the ground opening fire they were very very noticeable they would play rock music that in this was not there was no subtlety six this was not a even the military were more discreet than the private security companies so they would as they were very very public slap in the face for the average iraqi on a daily basis.

it's a real problem for the military so we sell the contractor presence in iraq in particular but afghanistan too was becoming contrary to what the mission was for the armed forces therefore their presence was more danger than it was help. knowing. every turn around that traffic circle. they're probably trying to get leave. and. the problem was that we had all of these different private military companies running around we outsourced too quickly and they weren't coordinated both in contract terms but also in on the ground operational terms so what is your answer

to a problem of outsourcing. outsourced more we outsourced it to a private military company to coordinate. these uses contracts in iraq was to oversee the communication and coordination for all of the privacy of your companies on the ground. and in effect it meant that they were the general in charge of all of the private contractors. now that point the u.s. military was the largest machine presence in iraq but if you added together all of the private military contractors spies was effectively in charge and second largest on force in iraq.

the prisons in iraq was relatively scandal free as one. video which was posted on you tube from the contract so who is. following that gun while playing rock music. playing. on its way. but no legal actions were taken. very rapidly each is such a machine huge company. and it made to spy certain extremely healthy man. the majority of americans now think it was a mistake to go to war in iraq public support for the war is falling war americans

want the troops to come home. in a brief ceremony on a base on the edge of baghdad the united states took down the flag of its command here to mark the end of the military mission. the u.s. money was starting to be pulled out of the iraqi. field operations and the industry had to go through a very complicated reset. those companies had to realize that they weren't going to get that level of money again and so they had to offer a different. deals. that meant they would have to hire cheap the soldiers. move to move. the loophole to

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our work undertaken by egypt is carried out to the highest standards of fresh milk competence and integrity when we first started into theater we were briefed on peruvian and colombian guards and the natural question you ask is so what do you pay for these folks and you know at the time and i'm playing off memory cells but i'm pretty good at that that was about a thousand to twelve hundred dollars and them oh i don't know six months a year ago it became. a gun and guards at about eight hundred dollars.