![]() ![]() Simply put, they are what we would have called mercenaries in less enlightened, if more honest, times. Of the 98,000 troops that were deployed at the height of the US presence a mere 2,500 remain, and even these are largely confined to their bases as they busy themselves in packing their bags and conducting rehearsals for the now inevitable end of America’s longest war.īut the numbers don’t tell the full story of the US deployment as there are at least 18,000 private ‘defence contractors’, as they are called in the sanitised, euphemistic doublespeak of these times, still present in Afghanistan, at least half of whom are not Americans but nonetheless fight America’s wars for a reasonable fee. THE news cycle will soon be inundated with images of US troops leaving Afghanistan, presumably never to return. ![]()
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