Military must learn to live with contractors.

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The Defense Department needs to better prepare military officers to deal with contractors in the battlefield, says Doug Horn, vice president of Halliburton KBR. The company is the largest contractor currently providing logistics services to the military in Iraq. "We don't train our leaders in the services on their correct role in setting requirements and expectations," Horn says. When a command sergeant major asks a contractor to do something that is in violation of the terms of the contract, it is difficult both to say no and to...