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The U.S. military relies on tens of thousands of security contractors who many war analysts now call America’s invisible soldiers or army.
This report describes the exploitation of immigrant contractors working for the U.S. in the war
zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, highlighting abysmal labor conditions and other human rights
violations.
Known in military and diplomatic circles as “Third Country Nationals” or “TCNs,” these workers
provide a range of services, from private security to delivering supplies to working on American
bases as cooks, cleaners and construction workers, often times for as little as a few hundred
dollars a month. In these cases, working in war zones is not the free choice it might at first
appear.
