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Here's John Bachelor.

Welcome, Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired artillery men

cbess, visiting professor Dickinson College, CEO Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy.

The CNN report requires explanation.

Biden administration moves towards allowing a requires explanation.

Biden administration moves towards allowing American military contractors

to deploy to Ukraine.

Moving towards it, that doesn't say that it's happened yet.

However, CNN notes this would be a significant shift in the Biden administration's

Ukraine policy, as the U.S. looks for ways to give Ukraine's military,

writes CNN, an upper hand against Russia.

Jeff, a very good evening to you.

What is a contractor in a combat zone?

How does it work?

Good evening to you.

Contractor in a combat zone, John, can do anything from someone running a mess hall

comparing food in Afghanistan, many of the mess halls on a foreign operating bases, particularly around the large cities around Kabul or in Iraq and around Baghdad,

were actually run by contractors who would do all those things.

All the way up to the most sophisticated and that is doing the

maintenance and repair on sophisticated weaponry. For example, in Afghanistan, many people

be included happen to believe that the demise of the Afghan military was accelerated not so much by the departure of the last 2,500 American soldiers, but by the departure of contractors because they were the ones that were keeping the Afghan Air Force aloft.

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