London riots: civilian and private security
Three short paragraphs to help us reflect on the riots in London and other parts of the United Kingdom over the last week. As the response of society and the private sector to the riots has shown,...
View ArticleDelta One and Operation Twist
Private security seems to be the only immediately available alternative to alleviate the widening security gap engendered by Delta One-like financial activity and Operations Twist.Delta One financeIn...
View ArticleMass migration, the Arab Spring, and multilateral management – with or...
In May 2010, The Guardian broke the story of the boat with 72 would be refugees from Africa practically left to die whilst on route to Europe. The dinghy drifted back to Libya's coast 2 weeks later. 63...
View ArticleOlympics 2012 Security: to G4S or not to G4S, That is the Question?
And so the story went that that G4S and the British government would swiftly elevate their partnership to marriage after G4S’s successful operation securing the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Newspapers...
View ArticleAdverse Forces vs Private Military-Security Companies
The motivation to expand PrivateMilitary.org to incorporate a segment focusing on Adverse Private Forces (APFs) originates in a key argument put forward in Dr. C Ortiz’s book Private Armed Forces and...
View ArticleMade in China: a perilous cycle
This is a perplexing story and hardly a fairy tale. Once upon a time, we avoided things made in China. It might have been the fact that those things were made by people living in a Communist state or...
View ArticleThe British Ceremonial Army
As a direct consequence of the global financial downturn and its impact on British public finances, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) was forced to reinvent itself. Please interpret “reinvention”...
View ArticleAAA British Private Security
On February 22, 2013, the United Kingdom lost the coveted AAA credit rating, a privilege belonging to the best performing and promising economies. Moody, the credit rating agency, downgraded the UK...
View ArticleRebellion in Mali, al-Shabaad resurgent, fundamentalism spreading in north...
Yes, economically speaking Africa is progressing. Yet, in parallel, many corners of Africa appear to be descending into chaos. We have mentioned already in some social networks that extremism is on the...
View ArticlePrivate Military Dogs
The British media reported this week some interesting statistics about military serving dogs and incidentally touched a little researched subject: private military dogs. The UK Ministry of Defence...
View ArticleIndia Mars mission vs UK aircraft carriers
21st century contrasts on an otherwise ordinary November 5, 2013 At the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India's southeastern coast, India’s first mission to Mars successfully launched. A rocket lofted a...
View ArticleHigh Energy Prices and Private Security
Dinner table conversation about rising energy prices and the arguably higher costs incurred by energy corporations on private security. Upstream and downstream, private security is intertwined with the...
View ArticleList of Russians sanctioned by USDT OFAC
[Worth reproducing the whole document. However, these names are only the tips of the icebergs. Will the U.S. go as far as targeting the icebergs themselves or this is just a media campaign?] Treasury...
View ArticleIraq crisis and the rise of ISIL: the cost of failing to intervene in Syria
Along the endless stream of amateur footage showing systematic human rights violations in Syria at the hands of state forces, throughout 2011 we heard one Western leader after another saying that the...
View Article30,000 boat refugees reach Europe in a day
What would European governments do if in a single day 20,000 or 30,000 migrants cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach European shores? As things stand, this is likely to happen sooner than later and...
View ArticleHow the economic sanctions on Russia imposed by the West currently work
Good Russian oligarchs: they invest their billions on real estate in Europe and North America and/or keep their billions in Western banks, which helps keeping those financial institutions afloat (in...
View ArticleRussian Sanctions, the British style: raw evidence
We will write a proper post about this issue. Meanwhile, we believe it is important for you to have access to key documents regarding arms transfers to Russia form the United Kingdom in light of 1)...
View ArticleIsrael and Palestine, pain and battle
[Posted on our WordPress blog, where we intend to focus on international security and Adverse Private Forces] Israel and Palestine, amidst all the pain and the relentless battle POSTED BY...
View ArticleThe fall of Iraq and the end of history?
[First posted on our WordPress blog, where we are focusing on international security and Adverse Private Forces] The fall of Iraq and the last man standing (. ...) For different reasons, many find it...
View ArticleEbola: health tips for private military and private security personnel
Ebola is difficult to catch, but weather you are private military or security personnel in counties or points of higher risk of contagion such as mass transport hubs, medical facilities, or mining...
View ArticleThis is now an archival resource
We have grown tired of the clunky interface offered by Blogger, a very dated and static experience ever since taken over by Google. Nevertheless, as the reader might find some of the items we have...
View ArticleChina’s President Xi Jinping’s most pressing question: To invade or not to...
Autocrats inhabit lonely planets. They can always make bold, costly and risky decisions because they remain accountable only to themselves. They are particularly dangerous when their power game morphs...
View ArticleThe Fall of Afghanistan: A New Private Military Boom or the Demise of the...
Along with the rapid and tumultuous recapture of Afghanistan by the Taliban since U.S. President Joe Biden announced in mid-April the withdrawal of American troops from the country by September 11th,...
View ArticleAfghan Evacuation Crisis, Intelligence or Political Failure?
Fast forward to August 11, 2021, when it was widely reported that U.S. intelligence sources conceded that the Taliban could isolate Kabul in 30-60 days and capture the city within 90 days. Given the...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s defense and foreign policy triad: Contingent diplomacy,...
The Remarks by President Biden on the End of the War in Afghanistan already outlined what will be three of the pillars of American Defense and Foreign Policy for years to com: Contingent diplomacy,...
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