Jana Crowder’s new blog on American Contractors In Iraq contains a link to some moving visuals put together by the wife of a private security contractor.
Some say there are 25,000 private security contractors in Iraq. Robert Young Pelton, author of a sweeping new account of private security contractors, says he has been told there are as many as 70,000. Between those estimates, that means there has to be one to three military divisions on the battlefield without a general.
These contractors travel from all parts of the world to protect and defend and supplement US and British forces. But when the Pentagon or the news media talks about force strength or casualties, they are invisible.