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Early warning

One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level Department of Defense officials that the army lacked the basic information required to effectively manage its burgeoning force of private contractors. In a memorandum dated March 8, 2002, White warned the under secretaries responsible for […]

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