We’ve spent at least $7 billion on direct private security contracts in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Took me about a month to figure out the topline and get the breakouts verified.  I’ll save the details for something at work, but I figure I can give the blog an occasional scoop.

For the record, note that the total spent on private security companies, such as DynCorp, is even higher because they do more than just security.  Further note that if you include sub-contracting the number rises more.  Even so, at most it would hit about 10% of our total contract spend in the field.