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In a previous post, we covered Landry v. KBR’s implications for burn pit victims. That same case also has tremendous meaning for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder victims. During her service in Mosul, Specialist Veronica Landry dealt with many traumatic events, even though she was a morale officer who organized karaoke sing-alongs and other events. At one such party, enemy mortar …
An imposing structure that some pundits have dubbed the “sugar cube,” and also happens to be one of the costliest facilities of its kind, is set to open in January of 2018, thanks to an army of construction workers. Considering infrastructure, construction, landscaping, and all other costs, the new United States Embassy in London, which is on the banks of …
In a follow up to a blog we posted recently, it now appears that a Syrian energy production company promised a Russian private military contractor a share of the profits from oil wells that the mercenaries liberated from ISIS. The offer may be designed to entice these fighters to remain in-country, now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has unexpectedly declared …
The federal government may be making plans to fight the next war, and rather than looking inward, it turned to the contractors at NexiTech for assistance. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the government expects NexiTech to upgrade authentication, encryption, and other passive measures into more active defenses. There is a considerable sense of urgency in this matter, …
After dismissing earlier casualty reports as “classic disinformation,” the Russian Foreign Ministry now says that “several dozen” Russian and former Soviet Republic mercenaries were wounded or killed in a U.S.-led airstrike outside Deir ez-Zor. They now join the ranks of the thousands of American private military contractors killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. The ministry stressed that the mercenaries, …
