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• Pirates, yet again

  When piracy is on the nightly news and all over the cable news channels, it's becoming a big deal and even the White House and the Pentagon spokesman were talking about it today . This article in the Times Online talks about how difficult any military... Posted Nov 19 2008, 10:54 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Intel, danger room, Blackwater, pirates, UN

• Pirates Beware! Blackwater picks up my idea of escorting vessels near Somalia

  H/t (yet again) to Danger Room and Nathan Hodge there. Looks like Erik Prince and Blackwater are going forward with an idea similar to the idea first proposed here on this website on October 6. As I've said before, I've met Erik Prince socially... Posted Oct 27 2008, 11:07 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Blackwater, pirates

• Around the web: piracy prevention, light attack airplanes, and amhib vehicles

  I’m going to try and do some quick, little updates on stuff around the web. Noah Shachtman, who I had a beer with during MilBlogs two years ago, has a great operation for defense technology and even policy and operations stuff at Wired Magazines blog... Posted Oct 18 2008, 11:02 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: USAF, amphibious vehicle, COIN aircraft 2, danger room, Blackwater, LTTE

• I thought the enemy was Al Qeada and the Taliban, not Americans in Blackwater.

  US private security company Blackwater is under fire, by Iraqi insurgents, some politicians, and many of our vaunted intelligentsia (New York Times, Washington Post, Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, among many others). There has been a Blackwater article... Posted Oct 03 2007, 08:23 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: Iraq, Blackwater, PSD