Can this be shared on other forums / FB groups, etc.? If so, what is the contact email for journalists to get in touch?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a friend named Bryan Stinchfield (cc'ed), who is a professor at > Franklin and Marshall College. He is looking to publish an OpEd on a paper > he recently wrote. > > Bryan just published an interesting paper on how private equity firms have > become one of the biggest investors in US military contractors like > Blackwater, which supplies "mercenaries" to the US military. > > Bryan is a former pilot of the United States Army and a former > counter-terrorism officer. > > If you are a journalist or know of any journalist who is interested in > writing a story about Bryan's research, please let me know. > > Also, any advice on getting Bryan's OpEd published would be greatly > appreciated. OpEd draft is available upon request. > > The abstract of Bryan's paper is included below. > > Thanks, > Yosem > > ***** > > Since the end of the Cold War, the portion of private military contractors > (PMCs) comprising the U.S. Armed Forces has been on the rise to where now > half of the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan is contracted out to the > private sector. At the same time, the number of private equity (PE) firms > and the amount of assets they have under management have skyrocketed. > These trends have converged in such a way where now PE firms have acquired, > repackaged, and sold the most famous American PMCs, such as the company > formerly known as Blackwater. In other words, much of the United States' > national security is now in the hands of PE firms who are in the business > of holding companies for only three to five years. Clearly, the goals of > nations and the goals of PE firms are not always congruent, which creates > important implications for the promotion of global security. > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ > mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change > password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. > -- -- Lina Srivastava -- twitter <http://twitter.com/lksriv> | linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/in/linasrivastava> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/lina.srivastava> | instagram <http://instagram.com/lksriv/> www.cielab.in
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