According to a report in the New York Times, Prince, the founder of Blackwater, and Feinberg, the CEO of the holding company that owns DynCorp, are championing private military alternatives to a recommitment of uniformed personnel in Afghanistan. First, if Kushner and Bannon don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past, why would they turn to two of the most prominent — and controversial — figures in private military contracting? Remember the George W. Bush administration’s kettle of chicken hawks? Mattis and McMaster are career senior military officers and, reportedly, want nothing to do with the private military CEOs whose involvement was all too apparent and destructive under Presidents Bush and Obama. But whenever that book is written, one deeply unsettling chapter will tell the sorry tale of America’s injudicious revival of the private military industry.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 20, 2017 10:52 UTC