While this is a slight exaggeration, a recent examination by Sean McFate, a former Army paratrooper who later served in Africa working for DynCorp International and is now an associate professor at the National Defense University, suggests that the Pentagon’s dependence on contractors to help wage its wars has unleashed a new era of warfare […]
This past fall, the Ebola epidemic had spread through Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—countries with fragile health and economic systems, weakened by recent episodes of civil war or political instability. Thousands of families across West Africa were at risk of infection. Recognizing the urgent need to act, President Obama directed USAID to lead an international […]
USAID has spent roughly $17 billion on reconstruction projects across Afghanistan since the U.S. invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban regime. USAID’s success has been mixed. There have been undeniable gains in areas such as women’s rights, education, and healthcare. Officials with USAID point to the 2014 Afghan presidential election as a step in […]
Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Nairobi-based company associated with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, has announced it is expanding to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The logistics company said it had entered into an agreement to buy a private DRC-based transporter for an undisclosed amount. FSG said the proposed acquisition will enable […]
For the past five years, Camp Atterbury has been home to the Individual Readiness Deployment Operation Program, processing over 400 contractors a week since 2010. This past week Camp Atterbury and the IRDO staff received its final flight of civilian contractors for the redeployment process. Camp Atterbury, located in Edinburgh, Indiana, began as a mobilization […]