The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reported yesterday that the U.S. army in Iraq is looking toward private contractors to train the Iraq military. Reliance on the private sector for Iraq security is well-documented but contracting out the military transition teams would be a first.

If the plan goes through, contractors will play a central role in the presumed Iraqi endgame of turning security over from the U.S. to Iraqi military. That is presuming that the U.S., and the contractors profiting from the war, would at some point like to leave Iraq.  Read Pincus here.  MB

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