Erik Prince Offers Trump Professional Killers for Afghanistan
US military contractor Erik Prince has advised the administration of President Donald Trump
to deploy Western mercenaries to Afghanistan to save both manpower and money.
Prince, who founded the notorious private military company Blackwater USA, now called Academi,
has proposed a two-year plan for about 5,000 professional killers and under 100 aircraft,
bringing the total cost of the failing US war to less than $10 billion a year.
Prince proposes that the mercenaries be paid $500-$600 a day
and would be drawn not only from the US,
but also from the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia and South Africa.
The proposal was reportedly offered at the request of Bannon and Kushner.
The US currently has about 8,400 troops in Afghanistan, with about another 5,000 troops from NATO allies.
US Defense Secretary James Mattis has proposed adding around 4,000 more.
The war in Afghanistan is the longest in US history with a cost of about $1 trillion.
More than 2,400 Americans have died
and another 20,000 have been wounded in the country since the invasion in 2001.
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