Erik Prince Offers Trump Professional Killers for Afghanistan

[goldenequity]

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.

[timosman]

Letters of marque and reprisal - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...e-and-reprisal

[goldenequity]

Letters of marque and reprisal - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...e-and-reprisal

...which (of course) RP recommended to Congress in 2001. shoulda, coulda, woulda.

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TOGETHER with a focused TARGET: Osama (not a country or an 'organization'.)
TOO MUCH, TOO LATE!

Bring them home.

[phill4paul]

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

[Raginfridus]

Letters of marque and reprisal - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...e-and-reprisal

If combined with a self-executing treaty and an economic & military strategy for completely withdrawing from the near east, I would be overwhelmingly optimistic, handing the rearguard over to mercs. As that is a dreamer's fantasy, I'm cynical the suggestion will work anything but evil.

[Swordsmyth]

If combined with a self-executing treaty and an economic & military strategy for completely withdrawing from the near east, I would be overwhelmingly optimistic, handing the rearguard over to mercs. As that is a dreamer's fantasy, I'm cynical the suggestion will work anything but evil.

Exactly.

[Pauls' Revere]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ize/548004001/

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The White House is actively considering a bold plan to turn over a big chunk of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to private contractors in an effort to turn the tide in a stalemated war, according to the former head of a security firm pushing the project.

Under the proposal, 5,500 private contractors, primarily former Special Operations troops, would advise Afghan combat forces. The plan also includes a 90-plane private air force that would provide air support in the nearly 16-year-old war against Taliban insurgents, Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm, told USA TODAY.

Prince said the plan will cost less than $10 billion a year, significantly lower than the more than $40 billion the Pentagon has budgeted this year

Guess they're worried about cost.

[unknown]

Who are we killing over there?

Anyone whos opposed to our illegal/immoral occupation?

[AuH20]

Good idea in comparison to the status quo.

[goldenequity]

Erik Prince "Trying To Find An Off-Ramp For The Longest War In History"

[enhanced_deficit]

65% jump in number of armed contractors in Afghanistan since Trump took office