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Robin Lustig | 16:52 UK time, Sunday, 26 September 2010

According to an analysis by the US investigative journalism website , more private US contractors than soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan during the first six months of this year.

It says: "This milestone in the privatization of modern U.S. warfare reflects both the drawdown in military forces in Iraq and the central role of contractors in providing logistics support to local armies and police forces."

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