Starve The Beast Is the Most Ill Concived Peice of Political Theory

[Kadagar_AV]

DoD means department of defense. Must of the civilian outsourcing reflected in your numbers are cooks, accountants, janitors, maintenance people, etc.

Organizations like Blackwater have never had numbers like you suggest.

Dude, most of ANY nations forces are cooks, accountants, janitors...

That, however, does not explain why the US has armed mercs on the scene, or let mercs go above national troopers in the chain of command, or generally at large let mercs do the job a nations DoD is supposed to handle without mercenary forces.