A 1941 law mandating insurance for contractors working overseas was not designed to handle conflicts on the scale of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and should be reformed, witnesses told a House ...

Mike Jabbar never met his replacement. But when Nawres Hamid died in a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq after Christmas, Jabbar saw photos of the wreckage and recognized the American flag he ...

Did you know that KBR (formerly Haliburton), a private, service-oriented, contracting corporation, actually threatened to not feed U.S. troops in the middle of a war zone if the Department of Defense ...

Well, here’s something you figured would happen eventually: during the first six months of this year, more U.S. contractors (232) than U.S. troops (195) were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

As we debate how many more troops to dispatch to Afghanistan, it might be a good time to also debate just how far we’ve already gone in hiring private contractors to do jobs that the State Department, ...

Explosive detecting dog handler Andy Cootes and his canine are pictured in this undated photo in Afghanistan. Many people who fought and died on behalf of the U.S. during 20 years of war in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Even dying is being outsourced here. This is a war where traditional military jobs, from mess-hall cooks to base guards and convoy drivers, have increasingly been shifted to the ...

First it was sacks of rice. Then frozen chicken. Later, even a television. The goods were wrapped tightly in plastic bags and thrown in with the other trash in a truck. “It was simple,” Raj, a former ...

(AP) - Up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense contractors, a study released Monday found. It’s the latest work to argue the U.S. reliance on private ...

First it was sacks of rice. Then frozen chicken. Later, even a television. The goods were wrapped tightly in plastic bags and thrown in with the other trash in a truck. “It was simple,” Raj, a former ...

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