<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: The Contractors Fighting America’s Wars
They’re ubiquitous but largely unseen; they’re indispensable but under-acknowledged. And presidents usually ignore the thousands who have died. Plus: Andrew Yang is not a joke.
It’s Friday, January 17. In today’s newsletter: The American war machine runs on contractors. Plus: Can Andrew Yang make the leap from “$1,000-a-month guy” to “Situation Room guy?”
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The American war machine runs on contractors.
In 1991, at the time of the Persian Gulf war, one in 50 people fighting the war was an American civilian contractor; that proportion crept to one in 10 by 1996, during Bosnia, according to a 2002 story.
