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- Here and There with Dave Marash, February 3, 2015
- Sep. 2, 2014 Al Jazeera English segment on Blackwater trial - Comment by David Isenberg
- Jan 2, 2010, Al Jazzeera (English), re Judge Urbina’s dismissal of charges against Blackwater contractors
- June 28, 2010. heard in “Controversy over CIA Blackwater contract,” The World
- August 17, 2010, on C-Span III, speaks on private military contracting
- Examining the role of the military contractor
- Has the Privatization of National Security Gone Too Far? The Future of Military Contracting, November 14, 2008, 9:30-11:00am, New America Foundation
- David Isenberg on PressTV - US contractor with poor ratings hired again
- Outsourcing War and Peace – Video
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- Gomes Castro on Families of slain and injured sue Ericsson over claims it funded Middle East terror
- A United States in Perpetual War Should Consider a Foreign Legion as a Pragmatic Solution | NextBigFuture.com on LEGITIMIZING A DE FACTO U.S. FOREIGN LEGION IN AFGHANISTAN: TRANSFER OF MISSION CRITICAL SECURITY OPERATIONS FROM PRIVATE CONTRACTORS TO U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL
- Resource curse alive and well in Afghanistan - Antony Loewenstein on $488 Million Investment in Afghanistan’s Oil, Mining & Gas Industry at Risk
- Il Boom dei contractors in Africa – SURIYA HABIBATI on Mozambique: Hydrocarbon companies deny security deal with Erik Prince – AIM
Monthly Archives: April 2013
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL V. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PROGRAMS: INCREASING THE UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE PROPER COURTS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF CLAIMS UNDER THE DEFENSE BASE ACT
Creighton Law Review April, 2011 44 Creighton L. Rev. 769 NOTE: SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL V. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PROGRAMS: INCREASING THE UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE PROPER COURTS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Mitigating the risk of Defense Base Act insurance
Mitigating the risk of Defense Base Act insurance Author(s): Caitlin S. Kaprove and John G. Stafford Source: National Defense. 96.702 (May 2012): p50. * The Defense Base Act (DBA) requires many… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Contracting agility in LOGCAP-Kuwait: to end fraud and waste in contracting and improve support to Soldiers, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program in Kuwait has expanded its responsibilities beyond supporting the LOGCAP contract
Contracting agility in LOGCAP-Kuwait: to end fraud and waste in contracting and improve support to Soldiers, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program in Kuwait has expanded its responsibilities beyond supporting the LOGCAP… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) legal reviews
Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) legal reviews Author(s): Theodore T. Richard Source: Army Lawyer. (Jan. 2012): p49. https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/JAGCNETINTERNET/HOMEPAGES/AC/ARMYLAWYER.NSF/AL?OpenForm&BaseTarget=NotesView Introduction You are assigned as a contract/fiscal law attorney in Afghanistan and you… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Plea for penalty: remediating contingency contract oversight with existing but underutilized regulatory mechanisms
Plea for penalty: remediating contingency contract oversight with existing but underutilized regulatory mechanisms Author(s): Jess Oyer Source: Public Contract Law Journal. 40.4 (Summer 2011): p1041. You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
Logistics contracts: tips for maximizing an awesome capability: a commander must know what to expect from the contractors supporting his organization to make the best use of what they have to offer
Logistics contracts: tips for maximizing an awesome capability: a commander must know what to expect from the contractors supporting his organization to make the best use of what they have to… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
LOGCAP demystified: a primer on LOGCAP services
LOGCAP demystified: a primer on LOGCAP services Author(s): Malcolm G. Haynes Source: Army Sustainment. 43.6 (November-December 2011): p44. Full Text: The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) touches almost every aspect of… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Title: “A good one though rather for the foreign market”: mercenary writing and Scott’s Quentin Durward
Title: “A good one though rather for the foreign market”: mercenary writing and Scott’s Quentin Durward Author(s): Erik Simpson Source: Studies in Romanticism. 48.4 (Winter 2009): p667. The Mercenary Context: Machiavelli,… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Democracy devolved: shrinking the public sphere: (the back story of Blackwater)
Democracy devolved: shrinking the public sphere: (the back story of Blackwater) Author(s): William A. Cohn Source: The New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs. 12.4 (Autumn 2009): p21. Full… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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The new wages of war – devaluing death and injury: conceptualizing duty and employment in combat zones
The new wages of war – devaluing death and injury: conceptualizing duty and employment in combat zones Author(s): Michael H. LeRoy Source: Stanford Law & Policy Review. 22.1 (Winter 2011): p217.… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading