Afghan War Blog

If you have spent any time in a war zone then you have run across them . . . or perhaps . . . you are one of them. We are talking about cont...

Linda Robinson reviews a book entitled The Future of Blackwater and Other Guns for Hire by Anne Hagedorn. The book is in two parts. The firs...

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has posted a Request for Information (RFI) to determine " . . . the availability and adequa...

A recent paper published in Parameters  contemplates the role of contractors in a war zone and the adverse effects the use of contractors ha...

Congressman McKeon has introduced a bill in Congress that would severely restrict the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.  His bill ...

Canadian officials are digging into the records to research how much money went to security contractors (and warlords) in Afghanistan.  Read...

"OTTAWA — Canada spent more than $41 million on hired guns in Afghanistan over four years, much of it going to security companies slamm...

The ongoing saga about a private spy network of ex-CIA agents and former Special Forces operatives working in Afghanistan continues.  See ...

The Afghan government is still trying to limit the number of private security companies operating in Afghanistan.  The official stance is th...

Security contractors working in Afghanistan are concerned about the corruption of the Afghan National Police (ANP).  Read more in "Secu...

DynCorp, a large contracting firm providing police and military contractors and instructors worldwide, has again won a lucrative contract tr...

Matthieu Aikins has wrote a piece on the background of the dispute between Karzai and the west concerning private contracting security firms...

President Karzai has determined that foreign private security firms must depart Afghanistan.  Unfortunately this will affect the amount of a...

"Private contractors supporting multimillion-dollar development projects in Afghanistan are seeking an exemption from the Afghan govern...

A lot of money is pouring into Afghanistan for construction and aid.  Some of this money is extorted from construction firms by the Taliban ...

Western nations are still resisting Karzai's plan to shut down private security companies providing security services to western aid org...

A Senate report is highly critical of the management of the money that the U.S. military exercises control over for the payment of security ...

Afghanistan is taking steps to close down several security firms operating in Afghanistan.  It is hard to say why these firms have been sing...