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The cost of modern joint/coalition warfare is rapidly rising and our nation's ability to address this trend while maintaining the effectiveness of our fighting force will pose a significant challenge for the foreseeable future. In line with the overall government trend towards privatization and outsourcing, much attention has been focused in the past five years on the employment of contractors through private military firms (PMF) and the defense industry to alleviate some of the pressure generated by soaring personnel costs. By contracting out various functions that are deemed "not inherently…mehr

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The cost of modern joint/coalition warfare is rapidly rising and our nation's ability to address this trend while maintaining the effectiveness of our fighting force will pose a significant challenge for the foreseeable future. In line with the overall government trend towards privatization and outsourcing, much attention has been focused in the past five years on the employment of contractors through private military firms (PMF) and the defense industry to alleviate some of the pressure generated by soaring personnel costs. By contracting out various functions that are deemed "not inherently military" and applying what are commonly termed "best business practices", the Department of Defense has embarked on a determined campaign to reduce the "bottom line" of manpower accounts with a post Cold War target of 700,000 uniformed military personnel. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.