ah, in the i b, b, c was of us left. iraq continues to maintain high prices in the country with the largest us ever seen in the world situation and get his daughters into the crucial international troops under control which the afghan forces, the security situation remains critical in the country. we are now stopped by your manager so yeah. like how about if i was on? if i already move our friends most of us again,

some of them they have ordered and left guns to day enough. i found right now making money lose my mission didn't was on my mind. 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, i can't. i can't tell about how many do you think i can't, i can't i can't have we deal with a minute people and we're doing this and it is this and this the method in effecting dismounted by the office as a quote. ah, ah,

the one low enough for the to hear you know, a full you learn how to tradition if you don't know for it with distinct from the spirit with arrows, the tradition. so if you are trying to single me the story in to them, say political, i'm sorry for 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 war. ready you think that's a problem? not that's not a problem. not a problem. because yes, fiction people take, it's not from us. capture. 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 the card? yeah. sorry, yeah, yeah. the

the fan gods who what are we with the program? they were peaceful. facebook framing in jam 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, on english the down to the, the

the cutting the companies recon common contract that we are dealing with for some 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 the 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 with in the industry have a military background. and one of the differences between being a soldier i found and being a private military contractors that when we 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 c. i. i will never accept. i will never quit. i will never leave a fallen comrade. it's the complete opposite in a private military world. you look at the budget 1st, the loyalty of these companies and these business,

men's trains 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 in power. we perform, we do 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 subcontractors. me o me ah ah, there's been commanders and staff who just simply said,

we don't know who the subs of the subs the subs are. so you have all the 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 know me. oh

ah, the 1st time i drive to to the 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 far as the landscape, not so far away from from the airport. when we enter the camp and get out of the car. the 1st thing we see is that you can an instructor who is in charge of the training of the making the recruits line up in order to receive these guys from the primary care to companies, the market for from iraq.

they were not here from like you said, i need to the fact that we're supposed to what are you not on tv now for those who basic i will read for me. he's all if you put at the come right. if i to the, to the from a genuine government, the iraqi equipment was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take local trouble. make us something in a 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. in the beginning of training course,

the one will weapon presence. so that using these wooden sticks, i was referred to a couple of days into the training that the weapons arrived there while being lined up at these wooden tables within in the middle of the big camp. the tension and excitement also attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real for many of the crews and the 1st time holding a weapon of the civil law the

doctor many were starting to to shake and some were starting to cry when when the took up the weapons, 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 said, i'm open. no, and i've seen this when i'm thinking i lost are now when i was supposed to move up on again. i said this is not my my, the issue was followed. i sort of my last point

in the future on the war has been forth mainly by young veterans alone looking for young men to perform military jobs. the chances are quite good that they have also been soldiers the read me. ah,

i need to put it in that show you that you have the money to shoot up fish. if not every day. remember me to my father you my word. i never did. i don't give me. oh, when i was young, i don't have things that i didn't send it to her good for you monday wednesdays. because job have your command on when you go the on her i was just before you have to do it by then you don't do dutch. you to have the thing in the koran attributed to the prophet mohammed, the dreams are threefold. sometimes they represent divine guidance,

sometimes sorrow from the devil, and sometimes there about the complex of daily living and past events. this applies also to women's rights in afghanistan, today, encouraged in the past to live out their dreams of being fully fledged human beings, african women. and now being told that this amount to satanic possession. and they turn to and i'm, what can they count in this time of existential struggle? ah, the the

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 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 out sourced a lot of our warfare to private military companies in the background of the changing nature of war and who fights that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself.

the until the early ninety's be for the security industry is adult murky industry. i must needs to bring down governments for the cash. mm hm. comes to the 1st proper, private military company. it was exactly that. it was a private company that could field a full all the time. they had incredibly highly trained and had moved into private depression with corporate videos. literally saying in your executive outcomes is a legend in this business they formed in south africa as apartheid. and did they had

a background in some of the special police forces during apartheid. elite units had death squads, some of the most controversial units in terms of the human rights records. no one down they worked for oil companies. they work for governments like in 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 van line international out of london. so ended up taking on some of those contracts. federline is a company that provides military consultancy services for governments or large corporation or. ready at some 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. executive comes row going to be unless 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 we're doing a human rights record and we would use the hires the same people to south africa, but now they're legitimate because they're working under a contract to spoken to rival gave an almost instant of respectability to what had previously been a muslim world and i didn't personally have any difficulty with the word must be a thing like 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 gods off. and that really wasn't matching the feature ministry before then it changed the agenda, the global agenda, and what a problem that company was i, tim spicer, was considered a respectable can of a mercenary organization. but at 1st there's been business affairs that didn't go to well. it was dog to my failure me, for example, you got a phone call from a fellow indian with a type passport who was under house arrest for financial scandal. and he contacted tim 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 be able to make money. but it didn't work out that way. the company line run by tim spicer, full balmy 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 the fictitious james bond type story? but it was a true story. these things tended to happen often times that changed what he somehow managed to get boys with the other was going in talking to guinea satellite or arrested at the airport. colonel spicer is facing firearm charges linked to his bid to provide south african trade must re put down the local result they were thrown out of the country,

but it was by some ways understood. the media is a risk, but to 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 was a contract. this is the contract i signed the recently retired bruce canada, who's that abandon messengers, he's safely back in this country. so has this put him off his new career as a hide 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 central way. me and line eventually collapsed under the weight,

and that was that in the short term, you can say that was also successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to his shareholders had both. conversely, it launched him spice on a career where he was able to find what would then become one of those things comprising that company in the world. when 11 occurred, everything changed the contractor content and the armed forces went up. astronaut mclean and to shower

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, private gosh, 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 reacting 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 and forces. it was just through private military

the so in the early days of iraq, it was a 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 a t m 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 year now paying a contractor being a times what has happened that america has basically married a prostitute and has been active, taking them for

a very long period of time yesterday for it was a good example, you can see there's going to be an appeal i've known a few roughly around this and we will get a raw or a very the ship 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 loves me. 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 boots on the ground which the us military wanted to put 1000

bucks in the ground and there's 4000 contractors. it's a way of, you know, having 5000 byte without politically risk. mm. well, they're shooting at you makes you. yeah. yeah. and you said it, did you get a score to shoot a shot and ricocheted his car? exactly right.

the private security company had the sensitivity of the letter for 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 when hawks in mind, when she comes to the ground opening fire, they were very, very noticeable. they would play rock music, but you know, this was not, there was no subtlety to this. this is not a, even the military were more discreet than the pub security company. and so it was, they were very, very public, slack in the face for the average iraqi on a daily basis. this

the real problem for the military. so we fill the contractor presence in iraq in particular. but afghan stand to was becoming contrary to what the mission was for the armed forces. therefore, their presence was more dangerous than it was held. the the ah,

me. i have often said transparency for the powerful receipt for the bell. this bit cares about privacy. what people care about is power. antonia and sons is become a symbol of the battles of brevity. information is power. that's what's going on. a huge struggle with the government's corporations who want to keep information secret and others who democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what they're going to do. watch how much help to shift the conversation around transparency. see what that battle has done to him. i feel like julian's life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer. in such

a situation. it's remarkable to survive the support suggest us mistakenly targeted and african aid worker in the drone strike killing 10 members of one family is our we hear from a former american throne operator. tell to the zone experiences killing innocent every shot that we turn like they're cheering that congratulating each other. they're high fiving each other. people are getting promoted because of this stuff. meanwhile, in our review, the week a series of lead unconfirmed messages from the us military in the field of panic. withdrawal from afghanistan with troops unable to rescue desperately american citizens.