Remember when rioters in Watts, Calif., began shouting "Burn, Baby! BURN!" in the turmoil of 1965? I'm sure they didn't have the following future in ...
One question that is often asked, but rarely answered with any accuracy is just how much money there is in the private military contracting sector. T...
Military outsourcing and privatization is just one aspect of neoliberalism. Like all other processes, neoliberalism is not static.
I couldn't let 2010 end without having one last look at one of the major U.S.-based PMCs; the one which, according to one leading PMC trade associatio...
So just how well is the splendiferous private sector logistics operation working out? Not so well it seems.
Sick soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan filed claims because of "alleged failures of the military contractors to treat water and dispose of waste in a manner required" by the US military. The defense is looking even lamer than ever.
I have often mentioned the logistics side of private military contracting. It would be difficult not to, as it constitutes the overwhelming share of t...
Unfortunately for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a new report makes the Defense Contract Management Agency look a bit like the Keystone Cops.
Back in April I wrote about the lawsuit filed by Indiana National Guardsmen, against KBR. The suite suit alleges that KBR knowingly allowed exposure t...
More than 30 of KBR's other subcontractors used private armed security in Iraq without required authorization.
Up is down, night is day, and now, in the best tradition of George Orwell's 1984 newspeak KBR -- the company that was the subject of a recent Departm...
Last week saw the release of yet another report dealing with oversight on private military contractors. It is extremely significant, as it deals with LOGCAP, the mother of all private military contracts.
