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c was us left a wrong. america continues to maintain of high prices in the country with the largest us in the world situation. and it goes down into the crucial international control over which the afghan forces, the security situation remains critical in the country. we are now supply in the us. your minus i do so yeah, like how about if i was given, if i've already moved our friends most of us again, some of them they have ordered and left for the day now for right now they're making money. we lose money yet. mission didn't was on my power. so how,

how many of the persons that you're sending out have used to be a child? so just in the, when i got there like on death, i can tell about how many do you think i can't i can tell you dealing with many people and we're doing this and this, and this the inspecting god surmounted by the office as the quotes. the ah well enough to hear in your fall

you will learn how to tradition if you don't know from the, from the spirit with arrows less than tradition. so if you are trying to think of that this me disorient them stapling. so that is not the case, may be critical of people who used to be fighting when they were very young that they now go to or. ready you think that's a problem? that's not a problem. but another problem is yes. fiction before taking not from us. but we also have our capture. and even if they had started when they were told, or they're not 13, that's not a problem. not a problem. is that the job? that's the hardest part. yeah. yeah. the the

fans guy where we have we've got the room. they were peaceful school friday. mm hm. ever got and resorted to use the guidelines because of their discipline. that people will come here. yes. and what's your tammy, this is what they do on the english the, the boundary show. they've got the the credit, the good companies reach on my phone with company i'm, i'm in or example i'm dealing with for some one time

i i i the private military industry is a part of how the country is in my tours today. um, ah, the us government doesn't track a number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan. we know it's a log. 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 contractors that when you work for the us military or any military, you take a sacred oath that you're going to serve and fight for your country. as necessary, die to protect a way of life. one that you believe and i am an american soldier. i'm a warrior and a member of a team. i. i will never accept. i will never quit. i'll never leave a fallen comrade. it's the complete opposite in a private mil to world. you look at the budget 1st, the loyalty of these companies and these businessmen change depending on market forces. we operate in the world's challenging complex emerging market. the middle east is absolutely the core for our business today. we care empower,

we want to do the right thing. all 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. me o me ah ah, there's been commanders and staff who just simply said, we don't know with a subs of the subs. the subs are. so you have all these layers of a contract. ah

ah, the level quality control starts to fade quickly. the deeper you go from the top to the bottom, ah, united states army and the military in general is so reliance on the private sector . i would call the dependency. but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't, ah me o me the time i drive to to this training can come together with it to 2 white

men from the security company. oh. were driving out and just a small track and what was to come through this forest, the landscape not so far away from from the airport. when we enter the camp and get out of the car, the 1st thing to see is this. the instructor was in charge of the training of the making that we could line up in order to receive these guys from the caird company for from iraq. soon as they were not hear from you, like you said, i need to know if i were supposed to what are your rec not on those who i was report. he's all if you would at the top right. if i took

the me from a chair and the erect equipment was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take local trouble. make us something in the way to rec, for a couple of years. and then turning them after 2 years with money from the overseas deployment. this could serve to stabilize security. ah, me in the beginning of the training course, the one the real weapon presents. so that using these wooden sticks. i

was the 1st couple of days into the training that the weapons arrived there was being lined up as these wooden tables within in the middle of the camp. the tension and excitement. those attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real for many of the crews and the 1st time holding a weapon. since the end of the civil law, the doctor many were starting to to shake and some were starting to cry when,

when they took up the weapons and not being able to to have the end of the compliance bagging for example, i don't know what is coming from the bus. i know what i'm saying when i'm thinking we are now when i was supposed to move up on again, i should use, you know, my, my, the show up i was following. i saw my last web on the

young on the war, husband was mainly by young conventions alone looking for young men to perform military jobs. the chance was quite good that they had also been charles soldiers. the right job. got me. ah, i need to put it in, but i show you that you have the money to shoot up fish or if not every day, remember me to my father. you know, i don't give me.

oh, when i was young. a lot of things that i didn't just heard good for you monday wednesdays. because job have your command on the go the hers just before you have to do it in by then you don't do dutch. you to have the, to the what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk

when i would show the wrong. why don't i just don't the rules. yes. to see out the thing because after kid an engagement equal trail. when so many find themselves well the part we choose to look for common ground. when we think of war and the warrior who fights it, we have this image and our mind of a man in uniform. um and uniform means they're fighting as part of the military service nation, the cause that they fight for their forest political patriotism. and yet,

when you look at the wars of the 21st century, they don't match those assumptions anymore. now, we have out sourced a lot of our warfare to private military companies in the background of this changing nature of war and who fights it. that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself. until the early ninety's, the for the security industry is doc and murky industry. ah, all right, let me just to bring you down governments for the cash. mm hm. comes 1st proper private ministry companies. it was exactly that. it was

a private company that could field a full army if they had, they had incredibly highly trained and have moved into a private depression with corporate videos. literally saying in your executive outcomes is a legend in this business they formed in south africa as apartheid, ended in a background in some of the special police forces during apartheid delete units. i've had death squads, some of the most controversial units in terms of their human rights records. no one down to go. they worked for oil companies,

they work for governments, i can gola and certainly own. and this became controversial and the international committee stepped in and said, you can't hire executive outcomes. so another company called fair line international out of london. so ended up taking on some of those contracts. fedloan is a company provide military consultancy services for government, all logical operation. or 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. british military got out and was asked to come help with a company called san line. what exactly comes role going to be in this? we think they're extremely good, extremely professional in a very good track record. there are no. ready skeletons in the cupboard as

well. i mean, we think that during the team writes record and we would use the hires, the same people to south africa, but now they're legitimate because they are working under a contract. ready to spices arrival gave an almost instant samples of respectability. what had previously been listening this world? i mean i didn't personally have any difficulty with most of the image that it comes up in most people's mind. if i tell him it tims by 1000 communion, for a newspaper dashing and charming, public school educated guards office. and that really wasn't matching the feature ministry before then it changed the agenda, the global agenda, and what problem that your company was ah, jim spicer was considered a respectable hand of a mercenary organization. but 1st,

there's been business affairs that didn't go too well. it was dogged by failure me, for example, you get a phone call from a fellow indian with a type passport who was under house arrest for a financial scandal. and he contacted him spicer and wanted him to restore the president of cheryl. was the president cheryl in was back in power. this guy would then get his contracts for diamonds and to be able to make money. but it didn't work out that way. the company line run by tim spicer, fullborne army colonel, instigated by customs and excise. and 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, okay, this really happened or is this fictitious? james bond type story, but it was a true story. these things tend to happen often times that he always somehow managed to get boys with either respond in talking to guinea line or arrested at the airport. kind of spicer is facing firearms charges linked to his speed to provide south africa. trade mercenaries to put down a local result. they were thrown out of the country, but it was the spice is always understood and the media is a risk, but can be turned. he had to deal with the bad publicity from this operation, which previously would have been completely undercover. but i suppose spices either genius or stupidity was to make it public and say, officially no, this contract,

this is the contract i signed the recently retired. bruce cannot do that, a band of messengers is safely back in this country. so has this put him off his new career as a hive guns? i am going to continue with this new new business. if it was found line international. i think we've got 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 sense, let me sign in july and eventually collect under the weight. and that was that a failure initial term, you can say that was also successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to a shareholder federal traverse. it launched to spice on a career where he was able to find moment, then become more significant problem as a company in the world.

when 11 occurred, everything changed from the contractor content and the armed forces went up astro comically 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 u. s. army at the time, testified the congress and said, if we're going to do a rock, it's going to take several 100000 us troops. and very quickly, the rest of the bush administration react negatively. and he's absurd, that's crazy. it's not going to require those amount of troops, and they actually essentially drummed him out of the military. it turned out he was right. we did deploy several 100000 forces. it was just through private military. ah, so in the early days of iraq, it wasn't gold rush. you had companies coming out of nowhere, including black water, was really like a cowboy was last when nobody at any control. anybody doing anything with firearms in this country could say there are private military company was an atm this

company well, the basic idea of a contractor versus recruiting training and supporting military events is that there was a hiring process to getting married. so instead of a soldier who has an ex cost of a, you're now paying a contract and being a times $10.00. you are welcome. what has happened is that america has basically married a prosper and has been active, taking them for a very long period of time last yesterday for what it was, the good example was you invade a country, they've been appealed. i've known people say no right now we will get wrong or there is the hip

from using private military contractors for understandable tasks to using private military contractors. wholesale in my view, took place without much debate, and all everybody laughed. contractors offer some gray area benefits to politicians. everybody's concern like do we have a 1000 boots the grant? nobody ever asks how many contractors there. there's don't really care boots on the ground, which the us military want to put $1000.00 to the ground and there's $4000.00 contractors. it's a way of, you know, having the course of 5000, but without politically risk, the

shooting at you you yeah. yeah. but you said it didn't start to shoot part of it. i shot in front of him. ricocheted his car. exactly right. he private security company had the sensitivity of political civilians would often, if not always get caught in the crossfire. ah,

what governments have always done because they will do 2 things at once. you fight and you will have to mind when she comes to the ground opening fire, they were very, very noticeable. they would play rock music, but this was not, there was no subtlety. it was not a, even the military were more discreet than the prob, security company. and so it was, they were very, very public, slack in the face for the average iraqi on a daily basis. the real problem for the military. so we fill the contractor presence in iraq in particular, but afghans was becoming contrary to what the mission was for the armed forces. therefore their presence was more dangerous than it was held. ah,

and the realities experience or even live in like a role or those my the you know, especially during and damage where you can go anywhere in the game world, go everywhere, choose the game that you want, any open role game, choose it. and you are now on a vacation in a place where you're like flying helicopters or you're, you're on beaches, you're, you're in a city drive, you know, whatever you want your name as these. these are getaways the way that funded is through the issuance of treasury bond and they pay the interest on those bonds by collecting taxes. who owns most of those bonds? virtually all those bonds, the top 110th of one percent. so the government simply becomes a pastor mechanism for people to pay money from their pockets through something

called taxes that are just a thickly that hides the transgression mechanism of your money through the government, into those who own these bonds. the brushes emergencies minister dies while trying to save a person's life during a training exercise in the arctic, the latest details on the coming off in the program. also, the president joe biden gets a hostile reception from his own citizens and made public frustration over his handling of the piano. some large.