Morgan Lerette: Life as a Blackwater Mercenary & the Role of PMCs Today
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Morgan Lerette discusses his new book on his time as a Blackwater mercenary in Iraq and what a mess war and Private Military Companies (PMCs) are. He talks about laughing in the face of death and how, as bad as Saddam Hussein was, he kept things in check. America starts endless wars with no planned endgame. He tells stories of meeting Erik Prince, John Bolton, and Pat Tillman. He comments on Wagner, how PMCs are being used in Ukraine and Gaza, and the great power conflict. He doesn’t believe the U.S. still has any competitor.
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Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Girls-Greed-Blackwater-Mercenary/dp/B0D5JMPTMY
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About Morgan Lerette
Morgan Lerette was first deployed to Iraq in 2003 to provide security for the first aerial supply route in Iraq at Tallil Air Base, which was the staging point for the Jessica Lynch rescue. He joined Blackwater in 2004 and was sent to Iraq to protect diplomats. He participated in hundreds of combat missions protecting the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, which gathered evidence for the trials of Saddam Hussein.
He completed his undergraduate degree in 2007 at Northern Arizona University and is commissioned as an Army Intelligence Officer. In 2009, he deployed to Iraq where his team fed reports to Chelsea (Bradley) Manning that were given to WikiLeaks. He left the army as a Captain.
Morgan received a Master’s of International Banking and Finance in 2013 at Tufts University. Lerette assisted the FBI in convicting Matt Marshall of fraud in 2022 by debunking his “proof” that he worked for the CIA.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. |
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| 0:32.5 | And joining us today is Morgan Lorette, who is an Air Force veteran, former Blackwater Mercenary and author of |
| 0:39.1 | the fantastic book that I have just finished reading guns, girls, and greed. |
| 0:43.0 | I was a blackwater mercenary in Iraq. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to geopolitics and Empire Morgan. |
| 0:47.8 | Well, thanks for having me, man. |
| 0:48.9 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:50.0 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 0:51.1 | And like I said, I enjoyed your book. |
| 0:53.4 | It reminded me, you know, when I was a kid, I would read Dick Marchinko, the rogue warrior. And your book reminds me a bit about, of his writing style. And, you know, by the way, I'll start by saying my professor in grad school in Geneva was Saddam Hussein's defense lawyer. |
| 1:11.9 | And, you know, some 20 plus years ago back in Chicago where I'm from, I used to have a |
| 1:15.2 | gorgeous Assyrian girlfriend who had escaped Baghdad. |
| 1:19.1 | So those are basically my links to Iraq. |
| 1:21.4 | And so your book is well written. |
| 1:24.1 | Reading it, I actually felt like I was in Iraq. |
| 1:26.4 | I could visualize sort of the scenery. And so what spurred you to write the book now, you know, many years later? Yeah, I mean, that was kind of the intent, right? You nailed it. So everybody thinks they know what Blackwater was doing. Everybody has a preconceived notion. Really what I wanted to do was write a book that people |
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