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re: The bad boys of Blackwater

David Kilcullen on how to run a successful counter-insurgency: In counterinsurgency, the initiative is everything. If the enemy is reacting to you, you...

The bad boys of Blackwater

From Wired.com: former US infantry officer Robert Bateman has an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune today, which has some interesting insights into Blackwater's...

Training programs a la Blackwater

Blackwater doesn't only provide protection for US State Dept staff in Iraq and elsewhere: they also run numerous training programs in VIP protection and other...

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Let’s make climate a culture war!

Let’s make climate a culture war!

If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad?  No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...