To: Katelew who wrote (126066 ) 12/2/2009 12:20:11 PM From: Glenn Petersen Read Replies (1) | Respond to Given that the Bush administration was fighting two wars, there is no question that outsourced military expenditures were significantly higher in the Bush years than in the Clinton years. However, the Clinton administration also relied heavily on outsourced civilian resources to support military operations. The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) started in the mid-1980s, but did not really take off until the Clinton years. In 1985, LOGCAP was established primarily to preplan for contingencies and to leverage the existing civilian resources. However, it was not until three years later before it was first used. In support of a United States Third Army mission, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) used LOGCAP to contract for the construction and maintenance of two petroleum pipelines systems in Southwest Asia. Later, USACE awarded the first contract under LOGCAP umbrella concept to Brown and Root Services (now KBR) in August 1992 as a cost-plus-award-fee contract, which was used in December that year to support the United Nations forces in Somalia. This contract was also used to support forces in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, and Rwanda. From 1997 to 2001, DynCorp supported US forces in the Philippines, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, East Timor, and Panama. it has been primarily supporting the Global War on Terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Djibouti, and Georgia. en.wikipedia.org amazon.com If Europeans, who lived closer to Russia and are geographically closer and more economically intertwined with ME countries, didn't and don't feel the need to arm themselves to the teeth, then why do we?
