Tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reaction that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis of this book was not in any way a whistleblower book or etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. And that is the origins of polemical issue. Now, before i begin the actual argument in the book, i want to lay out a few disruptive facts from a decade of war. First is using, for example, 2010 numbers, the pentagon spent 366 billion were obligated to contractors. 54 of its budget. Seven times the u. K. s defense budget. Now, when most people think about armed versus up armed contractors, they think about 30 or so are armed. Thats not true. Only about 1015 during the war, the wars plural, were armed. Or were trainers. And this is the element of the contracting world that i am focused on. The vast majority of contractors, you know, cooked chow repaired trucks, werelingists were linguists etc. But i focused on this for me, the
National Defense University and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says that were headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages when hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you peter. Thank you to the Atlantic Council for hosting this and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force in International Relations today. And i wrote this not simply as an International Relations scholar, but also as a practitioner. I worked for a company for several years in africa, and i saw while i was working there many press reports many think tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reactions that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis around this book was not in any way a whistleblower book etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. Polemical issue. I want to so
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Mr. Petri i move to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 961. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1961, a bill to amend title 46, United States code to extend the exemption from the fire retardant materials requirement for vessels operating wiin the boundary line. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Petri and the gentleman from maryland, mr. Coupling cummings, each will control 20 minutes. Mr. Petri i ask that members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material on h. R. 1961 the speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Petri i yield myself such time as i may consume. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Petri h. R. 1961 renews the exemption for the delta queen from certain coast guard requirements adopted decades after the vessel was bill. The delta queen is a paddlewheel river boat and was built in 1926. It operated in california until 1947, then carried tourists up and down the mi
Now lets go over to westminster and join that bbc special on the budget with andrew neil. It is budget day, thejohnson government unveils its new plans, with special emphasis on its new voters in the midlands and the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in the job, the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in thejob, the biggest challenge is the growing Economic Impact of the coronavirus, and what he can do to vaccinate the economy from it. With me for this politics live budget special Political Editor laura kuennssberg, Business Editor simonjack, and economics editor faisal islam. It was meant to be the levelling up budget, to the regions and people that have not done well in the past decade but looks set to be the coronavirus budget. This morning he bank of england has already announced an emergency cut in Interest Rates. The bank of englands role is to help uk businesses and households manage through an economic shock that could prove large and sharp. Meanwhil