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Posted inNational Security, Outsourcing the Pentagon

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Following the extraordinary success of the Washington-based Carlyle Group, which has built a private equity empire that’s earned billions for its investors, a number of firms have lined up rosters of former government officials and high ranking military officers as they pursue companies that are in the national security business. Carlyle, which ranked as the […]

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