Author: Michael

Morgan Lerette, Real Clear Defense
Private Military Contractors (PMCs) are going through an existential reckoning with their conscience since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended.

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Sexual assaults in the military might be three to four times more frequent than Pentagon estimates, a new study shows. 
While the military reported 35,900 sexual assaults in 2021, the study found that the true number may have been roughly 75,500. For 2023, the Pentagon reported 29,000 assaults, but the researchers behind the study say the true number might have been 73,700.
The report, released by the Costs of War project at Brown University, focused on sexual assaults across the two decades of post-9/11 wars, from the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to 2023.

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