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The struggle to police foreign subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

To win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, military experts want U.S. companies to contract with local firms for a variety of tasks li

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Windfalls of War: A decade of keeping government spending accountable

By Sandy Johnson

Baghdad bonanza

By Bill Buzenberg

KBR subcontractor in Iraq gets U.S. contracts despite human trafficking allegations

By Ben Wieder

Winning contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity and The Center for Public Integrity

State Department will inherit reconstruction duties in Iraq when troops leave

By Laurel Adams

IG questions whether State Department is ready to take over many reconstruction tasks in Iraq

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Military failure to secure Iraq after invasion

By The Center for Public Integrity

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By R. Jeffrey Smith

190,000 missing weapons in Iraq

By The Center for Public Integrity

Winning contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity and The Center for Public Integrity

Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide have accused the private security contractor of defrauding the government for years through pho

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Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Wartime contracting getting new scrutiny on the ground

By Nick Schwellenbach

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

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Wartime contracting getting new scrutiny on the ground

By Nick Schwellenbach

Here comes the cavalry, of sorts. Fifteen members and staff from the congressionally-created Commission on Wartime Contracting have left sta

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Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Private contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Early warning

By Alan Green

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2004 — One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level

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Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

Top 100 Contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan

By The Center for Public Integrity

Sending troops home could pave way for more non-competitive defense contracting

By R. Jeffrey Smith

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts triple in 10 years of war

By Sharon Weinberger

Contractors write the rules

By Jonathan Werve

Army policy governing use of contractors omits intelligence restrictions

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Privatizing combat, the new world order

By Laura Peterson

Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Private contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

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Privatizing combat, the new world order

By Laura Peterson

In 1998, the U.S. had a military presence in a remote African war that drew little attention from the media

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Windfalls of war: KBR, the government's concierge

By Sharon Weinberger

Contractors write the rules

By Jonathan Werve

Halliburton contracts balloon

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

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"… Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Europe, Defense Contract Management Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency and Army Task Force Commanders. A May 2002 GAO report that looke …"

Marketing the new 'Dogs of War'

By Duncan Campbell

Sri Lankans hire Tim Spicer, a man already involved in global mercenary activities

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Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Privatizing combat, the new world order

By Laura Peterson

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

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Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Private contractors and their fees have risen considerably since Iraq yet they there is little accountability

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Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Private contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Wartime contracting getting new scrutiny on the ground

By Nick Schwellenbach

Sending troops home could pave way for more non-competitive defense contracting

By R. Jeffrey Smith