Erik Prince Wants a Private Air Force

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The man behind defunct mercenary provider Blackwater sees private air power as the key to winning the war in Afghanistan. A new report links Erik Prince to efforts to buy or build private gunships - the kind of weapon only the United States and a few other countries have at their disposal.

David Axe, who writes for the Daily Beast, joins us to discuss the results of his investigation.

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0:28.3	To serve a very wrong-headed cash grab in the form of a private air war would be corruption on a scale that we have not witnessed in a long time. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front
0:46.3	lines.
0:47.3	Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello and welcome to War College.
0:57.0	I'm Matthew Gault.
1:02.0	Jason Fields is on assignment in DC today.
1:04.4	He can't be with us. Private military contractor Eric Prince is back in the news and
1:09.2	back on our minds. Prince, you may remember, is the founder of Blackwater and once pitched the White House on a plan
1:15.1	to privatize the war in Afghanistan.
1:17.7	Now he's attempting to build a private Air Force with the kind of firepower that few countries
1:21.3	have, let alone private individuals.
1:24.0	David Ax has just published a story about Prince's ambitions in the Daily Beast called
1:28.0	Air War for Prophet, Inside Eric Prince's Push to Rule the skies.
1:32.2	He's here to explain to us today what's going on.
1:34.8	Axs has covered war and politics for the Daily Beast,
1:37.8	vice, the Village Voice, and C-SPAN.
1:40.3	David, thank you so much for joining us.
1:43.0	My pleasure.
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