Contractor conferences openly frame base operations as profit opportunities

Evidence

“You whore it out to a contractor,” Major Tim Elliott said bluntly. It was April 2012, and I was at a swank hotel in downtown London attending “Forward Operating Bases 2012,” a conference for contractors building, supplying, and maintaining military bases around the world. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 672

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cost-plus contracts structurally reward contractors for inflating costs. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 696; Cost-plus contracts structurally reward contractor overspending — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 696; A contractor can extract profit from both prisoner earnings and spending — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Cost-plus contracts structurally reward contractors for inflating costs. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 696; Cost-plus contracts structurally reward contractor overspending — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 696; A contractor can extract profit from both prisoner earnings and spending — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 211