{"id":1710,"date":"2006-03-30T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2006-03-30T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T05:15:00","slug":"1710","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE COMING OF THE FREEBOOTERS: PRIVATE MILITARIES ON THE MARCH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Chet Richards<\/strong> of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/\"> <strong>DNI<\/strong> <\/a>and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/193201926X\/ref=pd_cmp_rvi_1\/002-8794355-2319264?n=283155\"><strong><em>Neither shall The Sword<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>did not have long to wait to see the start of his predicted trend toward <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/will-soldiering-head-back-to-future.html\">greater availability of PMC combat services<\/a>.<br \/><strong>J. Cofer Black<\/strong> has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/worldtribune\/06\/front2453824.0319444444.html\">Blackwater is now able to provide &#8220;Brigade-sized force&#8221; on short notice for peacekeeping or counterinsugency operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Black&#8217;s extensive record at the CIA and State Department in fighting Islamist terrorism was featured in the bestselling book<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143034669\/qid=1143696144\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-8794355-2319264?s=books&#038;v=glance&amp;n=283155\"> <strong><em>Ghost Wars<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by <strong>Steve Coll<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE COMING OF THE FREEBOOTERS: PRIVATE MILITARIES ON THE MARCH Dr. Chet Richards of DNI and author of Neither shall The Sword did not have long to wait to see the start of his predicted trend toward greater availability of PMC combat services.J. Cofer Black has announced that Blackwater is now able to provide &#8220;Brigade-sized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}