The Department of Defense currently employs more than 16,000 contractors in Afghanistan, of whom 6,147 are U.S. Since 2002, the Pentagon has spent $107.9 billion on contracted services in Afghanistan, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis. and Afghan governments have become reliant on, and contracts in the country are big business for the U.S. It’s like the Pentagon is scrambling to build some sort of ‘get out’ plan as we are walking it.”Ĭontractors are a force both the U.S. “If there is an endgame, no one has told it to us. “I don’t have much to share because no one has told us shit,” says another. These are American companies and these contracts will remain under private payroll.” “I am not aware of any changes to my job or of any contracts being passed to the Afghan government. News from the Pentagon has yet to trickle down.
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“So far, nothing is changing,” said a contractor working for a U.S. Yet contractors who make up America’s largest force in Afghanistan are beefing up their presence just in time to plug the vacuum that will be left behind. troops in the entire country, who, like their NATO colleagues, are all scheduled to leave by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Some are flying out of Bagram Air Base, a monster American stronghold once home to 40,000 military personnel and civilian contractors at the peak of the war here.
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The skies above Kabul have been abuzz over the past week with massive cargo planes flying out equipment amid the U.S. Photo: Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images