Tag: Erik Prince

Military August 22, 2018

By Jeff Schogol: Army Special Operations Pilot Killed In Iraq Was On His 9th Combat Deployment
 
 
By Sarah E. Kreps: One Reason We Have Endless War: We Pay For Conflict Differently Than We Used To
Excerpted with permission from Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), by Sarah E. Kreps, who is an associate professor of government, adjunct professor of law, and Milstein technology fellow at Cornell University. She has written widely on international security, including three previous books: two on drones and one on post-Cold War military interventions. From 1999 to 2007, she was an officer in the United States Air Force. All rights reserved.
 
 
 
 
By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity: DoD Report Details China’s Growing Military, Economic Power
 
 
 
 
By Dan Puleio, Navy Talent Acquisition Group Rocky Mountain Utah Division, Navy Recruiting Command: Face of Defense: Navy Recruiter Embraces American Ideals
 
 
 
 
By Marine Corps Cpl. Dylan Chagnon, Marine Corps Installations West: Wounded Warriors ‘Catch a Wave’ as Part of Recovery
 
 
 
 
By HirePurpose: From Desert Storm To eBay Exec: How A Marine Launched a Successful Post-Military Career
 
 
 
 
By Nina Semczuk: The Undervalued Career Field That Loves To Hire Veterans
 
 
 
 
By Jared Keller: Don’t Let Erik Prince Anywhere Near The War In Afghanistan
NBC News reported on Friday that Prince, founder of notorious private security company Blackwater and brother of current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is once again pushing to effectively privatize the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan.
 
 
 
 
By Chris Roessner: The Soldier Turned Filmmaker Behind ‘Sand Castle’ Opens Up About The Netflix War Drama
Chris Roessner served 14 months in Iraq as a Civil Affairs soldier attached to the 4th ID. He is the screenwriter and EP of Netflix’s ‘Sand Castle.’ He holds a B.A. in Poetry and M.F.A in Film, both from the University of Southern California. He is a Pat Tillman military scholar.