The Carlisle Group is a massive “private equity firm” that raises money from wealthy individuals and companies, where it then reinvests the money into private defense companies that have extremely high profit margins.  It is made up of well known politicians such as George Bush Sr. and James Baker, and it is one of the most powerful elements of the “military industrial complex”— which is a business built around the defense industry that is so large and powerful that it is able to influence the politics of war.  This video explains the structure of the group and it explains its history of abuses.