Guns For Hire: Afghanistan

Corporate Warriors On Patrol:

A group of private soldiers work on a security detail protecting US State Department contractors on the streets of Kabul.

The age old profession of hired guns is experienceing a rebirth not seen since the rise of the nation state over three hundred years ago. With up to forty thousand private soldiers assisting in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq the business of hired guns has become a hundred-billion dollar industry. This project looks at the many forms of hired guns from the institutionalized forms to more fringe elements.