Base contractor systems can become absurdly circular and self-serving in wartime

Evidence

In Afghanistan, Elliott said, he saw situations so bad that on one base there were private security guards protecting privately contracted cooks, who were cooking for the same private security guards … who were protecting the privately contracted cooks … who were cooking for the private security guards … and so on it went. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 674

Categorization

• CANDY: The absurd image of guards protecting cooks who cook for the guards who protect the cooks is a memorable, shareable anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Iraqi base logistics created self-perpetuating contractor waste cycles — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 732; Overseas base contractors sustain self-perpetuating waste on a staggering scale — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 732; The military-industrial loop self-perpetuates through mutually generated needs — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 190 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Iraqi base logistics created self-perpetuating contractor waste cycles — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 732; Overseas base contractors sustain self-perpetuating waste on a staggering scale — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 732; The military-industrial loop self-perpetuates through mutually generated needs — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 190 (+3 more)