Blurring the HUMINT/Translation Line
Eventually, strategy just devolves into managing hiring locals to achieve an endless stream of objectives with semi-controlled levels of violence. (Open source counterinsurgency.)
Earlier this week, Mission Essential Personnel won a Central Command contract for “aiding in the coordination, planning and execution of intelligence collection operations, exploitation and analytic support” in Afghanistan. It’s worth up to $475 million through 2013. And it comes just months after the company won a re-up from the government for its translator work totaling an eye-opening $679 million.
-Shlok
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