Current events and history came together last week when President Trump first talked about privatizing the war in Afghanistan.
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, an American private military company, suggested that his company could handle the war in Afghanistan more cheaply than the government and pointed to the British East India Company as an example.
Some writers reminded readers that the East India Company was involved in colonization.
Historian Ali Olomi, a scholar of Middle East and Islamic history and the host of a history podcast called Head on History, tweeted a fascinating history of the East India Company in Afghanistan.
World History students might enjoy the short history and its tie to current events.
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