Thursday, July 30, 2015

After All, Hiring Mercenaries Worked Well Before

The overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private sector contractors in the heart of its drone operations to analyse top secret video feeds and help track high value terror targets, an investigation has found. ... Some individual analysts even publicly advertise their skills on sites such as LinkedIn, with one boasting of helping with the “kill/capture of high-value targets”.
What can possibly go wrong with turning some functions in warfare over to contractors?

1 comment:

  1. "Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy." 'The Prince', Nicolo Machiavelli

    Source: http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince12.htm

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