One fiercely held, long asserted, if sparsely substantiated, talking point of the private military contracting (PMC) industry is that its cost-efficie...

Let's suppose U.S. diplomats are serving in a dangerous, violent, conflict-ridden country. He or she obviously need to be protected in the course of performing the country's business.

There is clearly only one story worth discussing. That is the report issued yesterday by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) comparing federal and private sector employee compensation.

Advocates claim there is "oodles of evidence" supporting private military contracting, but when you ask them to point you to just a single peer reviewed journal article, one gets blank stares.

As a military veteran, and someone who is more interested in actual facts than rhetoric, I have long been bugged by two claims made by private militar...

One of the perennial assumptions in the never ending debate about outsourcing and privatization is that doing so is more cost-effective. Don't believe...

Private military and security contractor supporters often assert that they are more cost effective than their government counterparts. It is true the...

This is the 17th installment of the Government Accountability Office interview transcripts. Among the interesting revelations are that background checks are outsourced to a corporate security office.