• North Africa and Southwest Asia

    1. Privatization of War: War in Iraq

      1. History

        1. 1979

          1. Iranian Revolution

          2. Saddam Hussein comes into power in Iraq

        2. 1980s

          1. Iraq is supported by the United States

            1. the Iranian war bankrupted the iraqi economy with debt

          2. Iran-Iraq war ends

        3. 1990

          1. Iraq Kuwait War

          2. Oil and Debt

            1. so the idea was to invade kuwait and jack up oil prices

        4. 1991

          1. Desert Shield

          2. Desert Storm

        5. Post 9/11

          1. "War on Terror"

          2. Alleged ties with Al-Qaeda

          3. Alleged WMDs

          4. Criticism: a strategic location for geopolitical control in the region

      2. Privatization

        1. Construction

        2. Eating

        3. Equipment

        4. Staffing

        5. Technicians

        6. Fighting, VIP escort.

        7. Talking about it

          1. Unlike the armed forces, corporations are for profit

          2. hired by government at much higher cost than military

          3. paid for by the American people

          4. Back in 2005: Lockheed Martin made $25 Billion bucks for private military services

            1. Do they desire endless war?

              1. probably not

            2. but do they make wild amounts of bank from it?

              1. hell yeah son

          5. What is the economics of it?

            1. Well, now we have a stock market burdened with security/war stocks

            2. We go to war, they make money.

            3. Stock market performance goes up when war goes up!

        8. Blackwater

          1. Now Xe Services

          2. So in 2007 they were banned by the Iraqi government

          3. So they circumvented the ban by...founding new shell companies

        9. IT companies

          1. Titan

          2. CACI

          3. Translation services

    2. Film: Iraq for Sale: War Profiteers

      1. KBR (Kellogg, Brown, & Root)

        1. Private civilians hired to do specialized work

          1. Truck driving

          2. Water purification

          3. Other stuff

      2. 4/9/04

        1. truck drivers killed by "insurgents"

      3. Contract bidding, "Sole Source"

        1. Relationship with "Free Market"

          1. Obviously, the free market doesn't matter if only one company CAN really complete the objective

        2. No one can compete with their economy of military scale

      4. Examples

        1. Water Supply

          1. Pay for barely chlorinated water

        2. Dining

        3. Laundry

          1. 10 dollars a load

            1. gouging

            2. over-charging

          2. the US military can do it for cheaper

          3. One soldier got in trouble for washing his own clothes

      5. Burn Pits

        1. Trucks with flat tires

      6. Cost Plus Model

        1. Generally in Business you should reduce overhead

        2. Cost Plus is absolutely the opposite

          1. the more they spend, the more they get

          2. bureaucratic money model

          3. waste is encouraged.

        3. So instead of being at least efficient, they are wasting tons and tons of shit

    3. Film Recommendations

      1. General look at War and Economy

        1. Lack of Peace and Profit

        2. Why We Fight (2005)

          1. it costs 1 internet

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