PMCs: What is the media missing?
I’m hoping the readers of the Small Wars Journal can assist me with some stories we at American Public Media are working on exploring private military contracting and the evolving business of war.
We’re interested in learning about the business of contracting from the people who have the most direct knowledge of it: contractors, those who manage contracts, and soldiers who have worked with (or are thinking about becoming) contractors. From your experience or perspective, what are the important aspects of contracting that the media are missing?
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Regards,
Lea Coon
Public Insight Journalism
American Public Media
lcoon@americanpublicmedia.org
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I look forward to the paper, hope you'll share it with
us.
My pet corollary was the one about the Railroads; "They never learned they were in the transportation business, they died thinking they were in the Railroad Business."
Substitute Airline or any number of nouns and verbs, including fighting smart instead of the (insert appropriate armed force) business... :(
public radio feature on contracting in Iraq
Thanks again for helping me approach this issue. The APM feature on contracting was aired on the public radio show Marketplace yesterday. It's also available online here:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/d...ract_policy_q/
and
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/d...tors_soldiers/
In addition to this, APM has a site devoted to contracting, which we hope will evolve as people submit their observations, their stories and questions on it:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/f...r/index.shtml#
We've tried to be thorough here, but the question is still wide open: what are we missing?
Thanks again for your help, gents. Best,
Lea Coon
lcoon@americanpublicmedia.org