Firm Extends U.S. Government's Reach
Front page WaPo, continued on page 20 and continued again on page 21, where the headline is, Firms Relieve Chronic Troop Shortage
I didn't see anything about troop shortages, just dirt on the British firm and ...oh, wait ... here it is:
The military relies on private contractors to offset chronic troop shortages. "If we had a 2 million-man army, we wouldn't be having this conversation," said Ed Soyster, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency