I know embarrassingly little about private contractors... or even war in general. It does seem really problematic on first glance. I don't think war should be a business opportunity, and there seems to be a huge accountability problem.

The big red flag was when they caught Erik Prince for lying in front of congress. If you run a private military, you should be running the most transparent company there is. No "maybe they got the transcripts wrong" that is extremely worrying. He seemed happy about it too.