Sharpen your sense of fairness
During the period of most intense fighting in Iraq, a common story making the rounds was about the apparently excessive wages paid to security contractors. Many of these reports misrepresented pay in...
View ArticleWarrant issued for the arrest of the president of Sudan
Today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, the president of Sudan. The ICC press release read:“Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International...
View ArticleDown the Zimbabwe Way
Who would have thought about it a few months back? Today, March 6, 2009 (please mark it in your calendar), the United Kingdom set the press rolling and started to print money to prop up its economy....
View ArticleLuxembourg: reality check files
Luxembourg’s official name is the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a name that reflects its patrician origins. The country is one of the founding members of key international organizations such as the UN,...
View ArticleG20 security: Olympic security field practice
The UK is hosting the G20 Meeting, the so-called London Summit, on April 2, 2009. In light of the ongoing global financial downturn, there is no need to elaborate on the importance of this particular...
View ArticleAnd it begins
Today, the house of the former head of RBS (the one behind the collapse of the bank, thereafter rewarded with a multi-million pension) was vandalized. The people behind the attack have the profile of a...
View ArticleQ&As: Failed Wall Street Boss Security
This is an answer to a question posted by an insisting reader.He would like to know who provides security to the bank bosses behind the global financial downturn. However, we warn the reader that...
View ArticleIMF or no IMF for the lucky few?
...That is the questionFirst of all, let us remind you why we are paying a great deal of attention to the health of the world economy. This is because the private security response needed to keep...
View ArticleAfter the London G20 Summit
Old, new, and quantitatively easedSo the US and the UK wanted the world to replicate their strategy of printing money (called ‘quantitative easing’ when it is not done by Third World countries) at the...
View ArticleUK calls for private military code of conduct
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), headed by David Miliband, announced last Friday the endorsement of the establishment of a Code of Conduct for UK-based Private Military and Security...
View ArticleLost: advanced preview of series six
Security contractors in the final series of Lost? Well, when commercial interests meet risk, we will always find security contractors. Not just now, as the use of contractors has been a constant...
View ArticlePrivate Armed Forces and Global Security
In the preface to the first edition of Private Armed Forces and Global Security, Ortiz writes that when he started researching the subject of his book, back in the mid 1990s, people sometimes thought...
View ArticleThe Coming Global Revolution and Private Security
Early in 2010, we were at one of those gathering in which people from all sectors discuss global politics and the private military industry. We commented that we saw all the elements in place for what...
View ArticleWho will pay for Libya’s military campaign?
In our previous post, we commented that one of the issues that concern us is the eroding connection between government and people. The onset of the military campaign in Libya appears to corroborate the...
View ArticleLibya Uprising: Update 1
[This comment was originally posted on our Facebook page. But as we have had 3 private messages already about the issue, we thought about sharing it here]In reply to the private messages sent last...
View ArticleLibya Uprising Update 2: The fear of mass migration into Europe
The administrations of Prime Minister David Cameron (U.K) and President Nicolas Sarkozy (France) wanted the protagonist role in Libya, and so France and the United Kingdom got the job to impose a...
View Article2 May 2011 - Osama bin Laden killed - a day to remember
Also known as Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, The Prince, The Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, The Director, >> Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces on a...
View ArticleLondon 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...
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