that it. will get companies raised on common contract as we sometime on on to them . are example i didn't remember it was for some would find. the private military industry is a part of how the country is in fights wars today. u.s. government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or

afghanistan we know it's a lot we don't really know exactly how many. i spent several years working within the industry i have a military background and one of the differences between being a soldier i found and being a private military contractor is that when you work for the u.s. military or 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 to. me i will never quit i'll never leave a fine comrade it's the complete opposite in a private military world you look at the budget 1st the loyalty of the. 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. we care in pal and we perform in team the right thing 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 said we don't know the subs of the subs the subs are. so you have all these like layers of

a contract. a level of quality 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 it a dependency but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas we just don't know.

oh it's crazy naturally it's really crazy in iraq. because since the 1st day i stepped my feet 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 4 of the civil union guys well trained guys assume i say original rock i called my mom i said mom i'm in iraq she said oh what 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 daddy. i said no mom there is no problem here

we have to see if we are not using weapons we are you here is does our convince my mom i said we are doing just domestic walk in iraq she told all the neighbors around so my son he's in iraq you know he's doing in cooking joe notes knowing that we were born. just after the war in syria you know i couldn't make it up because there was no job i didn't. 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 we are well trained in it come from. comply on.

the 1st time i arrive to to this training camp can plan i have together with it to see white men found from the security company. driving out in this small track and what's towards 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 1st thing we see is this a gun an instructor was and shouts of the training out there making sure we could say lined up in order to receive these guys in the past security company. their work my care for iraq was. written i came from iraq you said that he

needed. he was a shallow fighter who supposed to go to iraq not on ice you know more basic weapons uses only people that you can't be fighting between iraq. from a chair young government perspective the iraqi couldn't was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take you know good troublemakers something away to back for a couple of years. yes and then returning them after 2 years with money and from that overseas deployment this could surf to stabilize you crazy and ca on. in the beginning of the training course the one other real weapons presence so they're using these wooden sticks.

it was fast after a couple of days and so the training that the weapons and arrived and their well being lined up at these wooden tables within in the middle of the big camp. it was this tension and excitement those attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real ok. for many of the crews and the 1st time holding a weapon since the ending of the civil war. many

were starting to shake and some were even starting to cry when the when the su got the weapons not being able to to handle them. at the end of it i'll provide a compliant backing for iraq when our. memories come back from the past as though we've been sort of an up to no one i'm seeing this went on to kill. most notable for now it's. going to pass. so they're supposed to have one again i said. i did quite get what. i survive and i live where point.

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don't go dutch you're to have been killed. when we think of war and the war you're right we have this image and our mind of a man in uniform. and uniform means they're fighting as part of a military serving a nation because if they fight for their force political patriotism. and yet when you look at the wars of the 21st 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 fights that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself that. it was until the early ninety's the private security industry is a duck to most key industry. outright mercenaries who were bringing down governments for the cash can you explain what exactly sound fine internationally is and what you do in the. sun line. is a company that provides military consultancy services for governments. for asians. 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 of the military the british military he got out and was asked to come help with a company called sandline. splices arrival gave an almost instant sense of respectability to what had previously been a mess in the world and i don't personally have any difficulty would mostly i just don't like the image that comes out in most people's mind the 1st time it seems feisty i was interviewing him for a newspaper he's charming public school educated god's office and that meeting wasn't massively a feature of the construe before then it changed the agenda of the global agenda and what a problem that your company was. tim spicer was considered a respectable head of a mercenary organization but at 1st as business affairs it didn't go too well

it was dogged by failure for example you got a phone call from a fellow indian with a thai passport who was under house arrest for a financial scandal and he contacted tim spicer and wanted him to restore the president of sierra leone. once the president sierra leone 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 chip spicer for the army colonel 100 list occasioned by customs and excise that is 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 it was a true story. these things tended to happen systems of government runs

that he'd always somehow managed to get signed the recently retired british guy who had a band of ministers is safely back in this country so has this put him up his new career as a hired gun are you 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 its idea been the short term you can say that was not a successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to its shelves and so forth to firstly. 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. it is.

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