The war on terror privatized military force for corporate profit.

Evidence

However, as the pendulum swung back toward direct U.S. military intervention at the time of the war on terror, invading armies were often accompanied by a phalanx of private companies keen to increase their profit margins by offering security, interrogation, and other “services,” and they were followed in unseemly haste by aid agencies and building contractors with an eye on the opportunities afforded by “reconstruction” after the destruction of war. Thus, military shock and awe advanced in tandem with corporate interests. In that regard, the “global war on terror” has been just that: a war to advance globalization, in which globalized forms have been tools to achieve this end. Pascal Zinck sums up this approach: “In its global war on terror … the U.S. uses free market ideology to privatise war, generate profits through unscrupulous labour practices, commit atrocities by proxy, and outsource death to foreign others, mostly Third World paupers.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 382

Categorization

• XREF: The privatization-and-outsourcing framing echoes the economic coercion backdrop in The Reluctant Fundamentalist where corporate America and its military operate as one system; also connects to reader’s ADDENDUM #3 on sacrifice as a stabilizer of stratified societies. — connects to: European border militarization is a profitable business for defense corporations — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 350