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Military Outsourcing in Iraq (series)

Number 22484
Subject Military
Source Business Week
State NY
Year 2005
Publication Date 02/10/05; 04/19/05; 04/19/05
Summary The author investigated the outsourcing of the Iraqi War by the US government. The reports covered the use of private contractors to train the Iraqi police force, the problems they encountered despite the positive spin from high ranking American military officials and presented a slide show of the training process, giving a visual indication of the difficulty faced by the trainers.
Category Computer-Assisted Reporting
Pages 18
Keywords military;Iraq;Iraqi War;War on Terrorism;Iraqi Police Force;private security contractors;infiltration;insurgents;exit strategy;troop reductions;U.S State Department;SAIC;DynCorp
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