The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Trump and the Return of Private Military Contractors The PMSC sector is the U.S. military’s American Express card; it dare not deploy without it. Or, to use a more morbid pop culture reference, consider the first Alien movie, when they try to remove the facehugger from a crewman’s face, only to realize that trying to …
The Real Winner of the 2016 Elections Although political and media analysts will be parsing the election results for months to come one winner is blatantly obvious, and it is not Donald Trump. Rather, it is something all tax-paying Americans support, even if they don’t think about it: the military-industrial congressional-complex (MICC). To confirm that …
The following interview with David Isenberg [1] was carried out in Washington D.C., on January 15, 2014 by Patrick Renz and Frauke Heidemann. The main focus of the interview was on the definition of Private Military Companies (PMC), governmental oversight, the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq, the role of small arms in unstable states and …
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Erik Prince and Bubblin Crude: “Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea” If you have been following the news recently you would have seen a spate of articles regarding Erik Prince’s latest business venture, Frontier Resources Group. At this point those who follow PMSC issues should all know who Erik Prince is. But for those …
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PMSC Using States: Who’s Been Naughty and Who’s Been Nice? EXTRACT: One problem though. Since Montreux came into being nobody has had a way to compare in any kind of systematic way how various states were ensuring that PMSC headquartered on their territory were complying with the document’s best practices. In effect, nobody has known …
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The PMSC fox in the government henhouse Although he may not have intended it as such, all the publicity surrounding the recent published book by Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm once known as Blackwater, has actually served a useful public policy purpose; namely, highlighting the near ubiquitous presence of private military and …
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Steven Tyler captures the essence of open source when he says, “If you have a candle, the light won’t glow any dimmer if I light mine off of yours.” Like a candle’s flame, software won’t be anymore effective if kept to itself. With that said, in the name of sharing, GovLoop is proud to introduce …
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