Gov has been using Private contractors (from construction to security) in Afghanistan and Iraq for years. So why would Kushner and Bannon seeking out Blackwater and DynCorp be any different?
Maybe because the notion of getting rich from war, less ethnical battles with private contractors then military standards, former Blackwater head honcho Eric Prince is related to Betsy DeVos (education secretary) and that Prince is also involved with United Arab Emirates current private army building – PB/TK
Trump Aides Recruited Businessmen to Devise Options for Afghanistan – By Mark Landler, Eric Schmitt, and Michael R. Gordon / July 10 2017
President Trump’s advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, reflecting the Trump administration’s struggle to define its strategy for dealing with a war now 16 years old.
Erik D. Prince, a founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, and Stephen A. Feinberg, a billionaire financier who owns the giant military contractor DynCorp International, have developed proposals to rely on contractors instead of American troops in Afghanistan at the behest of Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law, according to people briefed on the conversations.
On Saturday morning, Mr. Bannon sought out Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon to try to get a hearing for their ideas, an American official said. Mr. Mattis listened politely but declined to include the outside strategies in a review of Afghanistan policy that he is leading along with the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster.
Continue to nytimes.com article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/world/asia/trump-afghanistan-policy-erik-prince-stephen-feinberg.html
