Re:Ex-Spy Runs His Own Private C.I.A.
by joe_the_user on Saturday January 22, 2011 @09:27PM
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The thing that you have to realize is that the classified world is more like a club than an open market (as is the military contracting world in general).
Merely having a bunch of money in way qualifies you to bid for a large military contract.
Most if not absolutely all of the staff of private military contracting firms are ex-military of some sort. So you basically start out, for good or ill, with the ethos of the military and the baggage of the military. The only question is what kind of supervision will you give to more-or-less-the-same-guys. That's it. So the whole privatization theory is essentially a "let's do it faster with less supervision" equation. There's no way human rights enters into that equation.
Merely having a bunch of money in way qualifies you to bid for a large military contract.
Most if not absolutely all of the staff of private military contracting firms are ex-military of some sort. So you basically start out, for good or ill, with the ethos of the military and the baggage of the military. The only question is what kind of supervision will you give to more-or-less-the-same-guys. That's it. So the whole privatization theory is essentially a "let's do it faster with less supervision" equation. There's no way human rights enters into that equation.