In a rare interview, Erik Prince speaks in depth about his pitch to Trump and Pompeo to slash costs by shifting military operations to an international team of 'contractors'.
By Kim Sengupta
Donald Trump is expected to ask European countries at this week’s Nato summit,
one of the most crucial and contentious in the history of the alliance,
to step up and contribute more troops for the war in Afghanistan.
Other member states, already facing an onslaught from the US
president over their shortfalls in defence spending, and facing the
threat of funding cuts, are likely to acquiesce. Britain, for example, is expected to double the size of its force to just over 1,200.
But Erik Prince,
founder of Blackwater, probably the most well-known private security
company in the world, which is now known as Academi, is adamant that
increasing troops in Afghanistan is the worst thing the United
State’s allies can do.
“It will be reinforcing a strategy which is a failure – something
which has not worked, will not work and needlessly cost lives,” he
wanted to stress.
The billionaire, who currently heads a private equity
firm, has his own plans for turning around the Afghan war – one which he
described to The Independent.
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Source: The Independent
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