and what we hear from those who are criticizing with the current state of affairs, of those well rather following ideologies, rather than pragmatic approaches. folk are helmeyer unfair says, where are we li, big round up for now. do give our website a look though, for all the latest developments and what was a busy newsday. this is wanda mic. no city, no borders line number please. and you guys as emerge. we don't have a therapy, we don't have a vaccine. the whole world needs to take action and be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better,

we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together with manny always once the impossible day. first day 8 say to the government, police, public, you government b. they say similar to any of the old, please don't touch my, my private life won't touch. my business won't touch my freedom. and this is an impossible contradiction. mm.

oh, b b c was with continue to maintain a high prices in the country with the world. the situation in afghanistan is into the crucial for international drills under control which the afghan forces. the security situation remains critical in the country with oxford. we are not by far gonna set you up with them. so yeah. like how about if i was on the funds? i finance most of these guys, some of them they have what it meant. i'm going to de enough, i've done some right now down you can use up my mom about

one of your yes missions in was one. the area my mom. huh. so how many of the persons that you're sending out? i used to be a child soldiers and when i gotta, i gotta, i gotta tell of that. how many do you think i can't? i got it. i can't tell because you're dealing with many people on with daunted. i this and this, this and this, ah, this, it, in selecting, i dismounted by the office as, and i quote, with locals with what they look,

look, you're not going to hear anybody you'll, for you learn how to do so tradition, if you don't know, fight with the sticks from the speak with arrows, doesn't the tradition. so if you are trying to think of that this would be disoriented, them stapling kind of swollen 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 or. ready you think that's a problem? not that's not a problem boss. not a problem. does. yep. i steps young people are taking that from much that yes. if i step sure. and even if they had started when they were 12 years old, i live 13 that that's not a problem. not a problem. is that the job that's a far dad. his car. yeah. yeah. he

with god. what are we us with when they were fisco fisco fisco frame? i mean, i've never gotten this, i'm that have been resorted to you guys because of that is been that people will isn't. what you're telling them is what they do on the some english the down to should, that's got the credit, the companies risk, i'm calm on company or

example i'm 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 a 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 contractors that 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. di, protect a way of life. one that you believe i am an american soldier. i'm a warrior and a member of a t. o. i will never accept defeat. 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 businessman change, depending on the 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 perform and do the right thing on this industry is not just what you see is what you get. ah, when you see a company, you don't know exactly who's working for them. they hire and they sometimes crate will they call subs sub contractors. ah ah ah, there's been commanders in afghanistan who just simply said, we don't know who the subs, the subs the subs are. so you have all these like layers of

a contract. ah ah. levels 40 control starts to fade quickly. the deeper you go from the top to the bottom. ah, united states army and the trained general. so reliance on the private sector. i would call the dependency, but we don't know who is the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't know. mm mm hm.

ah, the 1st time i arrive to, to this training can, can last iraq together. would that to 2 white men from, from the security company? oh, we're driving out and the small track, it's what's to was to camp through this forest, a landscape not so far away from, from the airports. and when we enter the camp and get us out of the car, the 1st thing we see is the say, again on the instructor was in shouts of the training out there, making the recruits line up in order to receive these guys in the past security company i down there with mountain floor iraq earlier they were not here from rocky, said that he needed. they want to share your thoughts or suppose to what are you

are not noticing without for those who know basic i with weapon. this is all if you put out the car, the car file, if i to return a from a cl, young government, texas. the iraqi clothing was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take local trouble. make us something in the way 2 racks a couple of years and then returning them after 2 years with money and from that overseas deployment, this could serve to stabilize security and ca ah, i down in the beginning of the training course, the one build weapons presence so there are using these wooden sticks a with

us after a couple of days into the training that the weapons arrived there while being lined up at these wooden tables with in the middle of the big cam. a, there was this tension and excitement also attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real from any of the recruits. so the 1st time holding a weapon, since the ending of the civil law a with

many were starting to to shake and somewhere wave is starting to cry. when that when the took up the weapons and that being able to, to handle. and i did that, it, it, wrapped and black come blown bad influence like rain one on our i mean what has come back from the past? i'm open when i'm seeing this, when i'm thinking for now when i was supposed to move on again, i should use, you know my, my, the issue again was funny. i sort of my last were on the mean

for the feel young on the husband. 4th, mainly by young combatants alone you're looking for young men to perform military jobs. the chances are quite good that they have also been child soldiers the job. 8 i need to show you that you have to shoot up fishing if not every day. remember my father

can give me oh, when i was young and a lot of things that i do see in the a lot of to her good for you monday me. what went days because i didn't job. have you come on when you go on her? i was just before you have to do it by then you don't do dutch. you to have the, to the as long as human are, is at the end of the day. self interested. you can pretty well predict which way bitcoin is going. and the fact that nations will make it legal tender,

and they'll be a hash bar going on in the house, right? 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 this changing nature of war and who fights that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself.

until the early ninety's, the security industry is a dock murky industry. ah, all right, let me to bring you down governments for the cash. mm hm. i could have come to the 1st proper, private miniature company. it was exactly that. it was a private company that could field a full all me if i had time, they had so just incredibly highly trained and had moved into a private sector with brushes, corporate videos, literally saying here's your maturity to put your schools in 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 is elite units at death squads. some of the most controversial units in terms of their human rights records. no one done with they worked for oil companies, they work for governments like angola and certainly own. and this became controversial and international that he stepped in and said that you can't hire executive outcomes. so another company called san line international out of london sort of ended up taking on some of e o is contracts. sandlon is a company that provides military consultants to services for governments. all large

corporations for. ready ready 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. i got out and was asked to come help with a company called san line. more executive outcomes, rogue to be in this we think they're extremely good, extremely professional, a very good track record. there are no. ready skeletons in the cover as well. i mean we think that would bring the human rights record and we would use them for. ready the hires the same people to south africa but now they're legitimate because they're working under a contract. ready ready to spices arrival gave an almost instant singles of respectability towards privacy be unless news world i'm not i personally have

difficulty with the word must me. i just don't like the image that it comes up in most people's mind. if i tell them at tim spice, i was interviewing for newspaper dashing and charming public school educated god's officer. and that really wasn't matching the feature ministry before then. it changed the agenda, the global agenda, and what the problem that you company was tim spicer was considered a respectable head of a mercenary organization, but at 1st his business affairs didn't go to well. he was dogged by failure. for example, you got a phone call from shallow indian with a type 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. me was the president cheryl,

and 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 landline run by tim spicer, full the lobby cuddle, is under investigation by customs and excise, and he's accused of smuggling weapons illegally. when a private firm and 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. seems hi, sort of the times that he'd always somehow managed to get with in pop and you're getting sound like we're arrested at the airport cuddled spicer, spacing firearms charges linked to his bid to provide south african trade. most

reason to put down a local result. they were thrown out of the country, but it was it, it seems like there's always understood that 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 spice's 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 british letter band of messengers is safely back in this country. so has this put him off his new career as a hired gun? i you gonna continue with this new new business of yours sand line international? well, 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 sensible way. sand

line eventually collapsed under the weight of bad publicity. was that a failure? in the short term, you could say that was not a successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to a shout and said, conversely, it launched him spice on a career where he was able to found what would then become more and more significant problem, major companies in the world, ah ha. who, when 911 occurred everything changed to

the contractor content and the armed forces he went up astronomically at this hour . american and coalition forces were 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 to congress and said, if we're going to do a rock, it's going to take several $100000.00 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 was a gold rush. you had companies coming out of nowhere in gwin blackwater, who was really like a cowboy while west when nobody at any control. anybody doing anything with firearms in this country could say their private military company was an atm for these companies? well, the basic idea of a contractor versus recruiting training and supporting military vents is the difference in hiring a prostate or getting married. so instead of a soldier who has an ex cost of a, you're now paying a contractor in a times $10.00. you are welcome. what has happened is that america has basically

married a prostitute and has been active. paying them for a very long period is almost carriers with was good example. if you invite a country to connect, they've been a few thought, a few things right and left her to run a very low ship from using private military contractors for understandable to ask to using private military contractors. wholesale in my view, took place without much debate, and all everybody loved with contractors offer some gray area benefits to politicians and everybody is concerned . like do we have a 1000 boots the ground?

nobody ever asks how many contractors they're based? don't really count boots on the ground with the u. s. military. i wanted to put 1000 books in the ground and there's 4000 contractors. it's a way of, you know, having the course of $5000.00, but without politically risks with, ah, well, double run their shooting at you make a you yes. yeah. with bad guy. so did you get a skirt suit? part of it. my son brought up in ricocheted. his car with

right with the private security companies had the sensitivity of a vent bull elephant civilians would often if not always get caught in the crossfire. ah, what governments have always done because they do 2 things at once. you fight and you win hawks mind private industry company didn't do that much company on the ground opening fight. they were very, very noticeable. they would play rock music, but this was not, there was no subtlety. this was not a, even the military were more discreet than the prob, security companies. so they were, it was, 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 fill the contractor presence in iraq in particular, but afghan too was becoming contrary to what the mission was for the armed forces. therefore their presence was more danger. well then it was hell. ah, well, it seemed wrong when i just don't a whole new world. yes. to shape out the same becomes the african and engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. a

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