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Afghan officials reject push to privatize war
Afghan officials have rejected a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to have his private military contracting company take over the training and advising of the Afghan armed forces.
Prince lobbied several Afghan politicians on a recent trip to the country and has been discussing his proposal to privatize parts of the U.S. military mission in the country for over a year, according to Reuters.
But Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has repeatedly dismissed the idea. "Under no circumstances will the Afghan government and people allow the counterterrorism fight to become a private, for-profit business," Ghani's national security adviser said in a statement to Reuters Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has also rejected the proposal, saying in August, "When Americans put their nation's credibility on the line, privatizing it is probably not a wise idea."
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(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:13AM
Parent is completely correct. Articles published in the Army Times by Blackwater recommend so called "blended metal" rounds, and say the reason regular soldiers should not use them, rather than just the mercs, is that a self-inflicted wound could be fatal.
So instead of this ad for a war-criminal mercenary brother of the Sec. of Ed, we could have had a nice informative aristarchus submission, if they had not all been rejected without notice or explanation.