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Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Private Armies of Iraq

The market value 100 billion dollars;




Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq
by David Isenberg

Private Sector, Public Wars: Contractors in Combat - Afghanistan, Iraq, and Future Conflicts (The Changing Face of War)
by James Jay Carafano

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill

Sending Mercenaries Into Darfur?
Posted by Marshall Jevons at 11:22 AM
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  • Campaign for the American Reader
    What is Nikki May reading? - Featured at Writers Read: Nikki May, author of This Motherless Land: A Novel. Her entry begins: I’ve just finished Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. One of...
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  • Healthcare Economist
    A Retrospective Claims Analysis of the Rate of Complications in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria - That is the title of my recent paper with co-authors Denise Clayton, Glorian Yen, Lincy Geevarghese, Yulin Shi Anem Waheed. The abstract is below. Introduc...
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    9 months ago
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    11 months ago
  • Stumbling and Mumbling
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    1 year ago
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    2 years ago
  • Mind Hacks
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  • macroblog
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    4 years ago
  • The American Prospect Articles
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    5 years ago
  • John Battelle's Searchblog
    Do We Want A Society Built On The Architecture of Dumb Terminals? - The post Do We Want A Society Built On The Architecture of Dumb Terminals? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. God, “innovation.” First banali...
    6 years ago
  • Game Theorist
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    6 years ago
  • Well
    I Tried to Befriend My Husband’s Ex. So What? - Our columnist probes a reader’s remorselessness, among other things.
    6 years ago
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
    This Blog, R.I.P. - We're closing the blog — but you're still stuck with my writing!
    6 years ago
  • The Caucus
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    6 years ago
  • WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com
    The WSJ Law Blog: 2006-2017 - More than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal launched Law Blog. It had a simple name but a novel approach to legal coverage in the pre-Twitter era. The ...
    7 years ago
  • FinanceProfessor.com
    FedEx Saved From Bankruptcy With Blackjack Winnings - Business Insider - How I missed this for all these years is beyond me, but it fits my classes PERFECTLY!! When you have nothing to lose, you might as well take big risks! Se...
    7 years ago
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  • Brad Setser: Follow the Money
    China Still Wants To Import Commodities, Not Manufactures (Judging From The “Early Harvest” Trade Deal) - China tends to import natural resources—oil, iron ore, soybeans and the like. Now that China has a large industrial economy,...
    7 years ago
  • The Belgravia Dispatch
    Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...
    7 years ago
  • Paper Cuts
    Service Advisory: ArtsBeat Is Finished. - This is post No. 23,231 on the ArtsBeat blog. And it is the last one.
    8 years ago
  • Bits
    Daily Report: A Net Neutrality Setback for Facebook in India - In the United States, the social media giant has been an advocate of equal treatment of all Internet content. In India, regulators who share that belief ha...
    8 years ago
  • İyigün Blog
    herbal untuk jantung dan darah tinggi yang ampuh - Apakah Anda tahu bahwa madu mampu memberikan M segala macam manfaat bagi kesehatan manusia? Madu diakui mengingat bahwa zaman kuno sebagai obat, dan penggun...
    10 years ago
  • The Lede
    The Lede Is Going Dark - The Lede will no longer be updated, but the blog’s regular features will remain a part of The New York Times news report.
    10 years ago
  • The Becker-Posner Blog
    Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
    10 years ago
  • Aplia Econ Blog: News for Economics Students
    The Economics and Egonomics of New Year's Resolutions - If you are like many Americans, you made a New Year's resolution, and, if you are like most of those people, you will have given up on it before the year...
    10 years ago
  • Built on Facts
    Is Bitcoin Currently Experiencing a Selfish Miner Attack? - Is Bitcoin Currently Experiencing a Selfish Miner Attack? Probably not. All right, now that you know my conclusion, let's see how to get there with data....
    10 years ago
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    11 years ago
  • Bluematter.
    Why model? - The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical (non-innocent) inquisi...
    12 years ago
  • Econ Academics Blog
    The latest discussions about economics research in the blogosphere - Follow the latest blog posts discussing economics research throughout the blogosphere.
    12 years ago
  • MTEF is The Bayesian Heresy
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    12 years ago
  • murketing
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    13 years ago
  • Peter Levine
    this site is moving - After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am shifting o...
    13 years ago
  • 2 Blowhards
    An Announcement - Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost, who'd given ...
    14 years ago
  • Management Blog
    The end of management as we knew it - The death of the FT Management Blog
    14 years ago
  • Gene Expression
    Armenian genetics - Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very* garb...
    14 years ago
  • Harry Clarke
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    15 years ago
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