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Private security firms
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Originally posted by bilmore
I tend to agree with this. Plus, in a situation where we are close to maxing out our military, it's good to have this hireable expertise sitting out there available on a short-term contract basis. Much cheaper, in the long run, than expanding the military with long-term hires (and thus long-term liabilities.)
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There's an editorial in the NYT today decrying this trend, but I'm not seeing the downside in a concrete way. I guess mercenaries are less useful than regular troops in that you can't use them in some of the same ways -- e.g., in large formations when things really go to hell -- but it's unclear that this has really made much of a difference.
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