{"id":193365,"date":"2008-12-20T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/us-military-looking-for-contractor-to-oversee-mercenaries\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T13:45:00","slug":"us-military-looking-for-contractor-to-oversee-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/us-military-looking-for-contractor-to-oversee-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Looking for Contractor to Oversee Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well this has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/12\/more-oversight.html\">epic FAIL<\/a> written all over it:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>According to a solicitation released earlier this week by the coalition headquarters at Bagram Airfield, the military is looking for a contractor to run something called the &#8220;Armed Contractor Oversight Directorate.&#8221; The work statement says the new office will be responsible for tracking private security companies (PSCs) &#8212; and keeping tabs on how often they resort to force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If our army is so hollow that we need to hire mercenaries to supervise mercenaries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know, that sound that you hear is Franz Kafka turning over in his grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this has epic FAIL written all over it: According to a solicitation released earlier this week by the coalition headquarters at Bagram Airfield, the military is looking for a contractor to run something called the &#8220;Armed Contractor Oversight Directorate.&#8221; The work statement says the new office will be responsible for tracking private security companies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1008,1179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-defense-procurement","category-mercenaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}