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As further evidence of the mounting Islamic militant activity in Mozambique, the government recently announced that Dyck Advisory Group contractors, who were slated to stand down in July, would remain in-country through at least the end of 2020. DAG has lost two aircraft during operations in the country. Additionally, DAG helicopter gunships supposedly fired on civilians during a recent operation. …

From 2008 to 2019, the Pentagon spent over $1 trillion on private military contractors. None of this money was part of the “official” accounting figures, according to a recent report. Brown University researchers dubbed this hidden spending the “camo economy.” Many agreements with private military contractors are “non-competitive.” The government picked a specific contractor and negotiated the terms only with …

Over a dozen embassy security guards from Nepal are infected with coronavirus, causing some panic among embassy workers. Contractors in Afghanistan are not new. In 2015, there were four times as many contractors in Afghanistan as regular servicemembers. Many of these individuals are Nepalese Gurkhas, whose ancestors fought alongside British and Indian forces in World War II as well as …

Fears of a future confrontation with China over the South China Sea have exponentially increased activity levels at previously sleepy military installations. The Air Force recently sent a detachment of long-rage B-1 and B-52 bombers to Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base. The B-52s flew 28 hours nonstop from Louisiana to reach their new home. Officials described the B-1 redeployment as …

Only one member of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council remains after a wave of resignations, and no one is sure when the next election will be held. Prior to the resignations, Léopold Berlanger’s government had been in power for four years without any serious corruption or other issues, an unprecedented tenure for an elected government in this island nation. The last …