Military outsourcing is making headlines, but it didn’t begin in Iraq. Private contractors played a key role in winning American independence. A frenzied shootout in a Baghdad intersection last September reportedly left 17 civilian bystanders dead. The shooters, providing security for a convoy of officials, turned out to be neither U.S. nor Iraqi military, insurgents …
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