Rise of China’s private armies
“…..the impetus to create these Chinese security firms was driven by market incentives, not political mandate.”
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Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
“…..the impetus to create these Chinese security firms was driven by market incentives, not political mandate.”
Continue ReadingMarch, 2015 I’d been on the hunt for former U.S. security firm Blackwater owner, Erik Prince, for Newsweek. At the time Prince’s Malta-based logistics company, Frontier Services Group, was sending supplies and repairing oil production facilities. Contrary to some reports, sources said he’d also been training police and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army – SPLA – to […]
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