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2018-06-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Erik Prince's drive to build a private airforce.
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Posted by 3dc 2018-06-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top
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Posted by 3dc 2018-06-01 06:19||   2018-06-01 06:19|| Front Page Top

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Posted by 3dc 2018-06-01 06:29||   2018-06-01 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Prince’s $300 million proposal to aid Kiir’s forces explicitly called for ground and air assaults, initially to be conducted by a 341-person foreign combat unit. Prince’s forces would conduct “deliberate attacks, raids, [and] ambushes” against “rebel objectives,” to be followed by “continuous medium to high intensity rapid intervention,” which would include “search [and] destroy missions.” Various drafts of the proposal, obtained by The Intercept, reveal meticulous planning, down to the exact number of munitions and specific hand-held radios that would be purchased. Iron Fist called for the acquisition of at least 600 bombs, 3,500 rockets, 7,500 mortars, and more than 30 million rounds of ammunition.
Posted by 3dc 2018-06-01 06:32||   2018-06-01 06:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Power point for South Sudan operation
Posted by 3dc 2018-06-01 06:38||   2018-06-01 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, but will it play in Peoria Chicago?

Prison operations are already privatized. Black Water security forces could easily augment police.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-06-01 06:50||   2018-06-01 06:50|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-01 07:27||   2018-06-01 07:27|| Front Page Top

#7 
There was a film with that idea.

BTW I smoked my comment above as the image was bigger than i thought!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-01 07:28||   2018-06-01 07:28|| Front Page Top

#8 And what does Africom and the alphabet soup of the Deep State have to say/do about this?

Is this an updated version of Air America?
Posted by AlanC 2018-06-01 07:35||   2018-06-01 07:35|| Front Page Top

#9 It appears that in south Sudan Prince has chosen the ethnic Dinka over the ethnic Nuer. The nascent state should have been a confederation of three states, with the third polity comprising the Equatoria tribes. In reality, tribal hatred is so great, a unified South Sudan is a pipedream. So let the slaughter continue.
Posted by Clurong Peacock9529 2018-06-01 08:38||   2018-06-01 08:38|| Front Page Top

#10 ...so just another version of Bloods and Crips?
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-01 08:49||   2018-06-01 08:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Border patrol comes to mind as an application.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-01 08:51||   2018-06-01 08:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Poor man’s A-10. The marines might like a few of those.
Posted by KBK 2018-06-01 08:54||   2018-06-01 08:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Read further. He's now a arm of China.
Posted by 3dc 2018-06-01 09:38||   2018-06-01 09:38|| Front Page Top

#14 From the PowerPoint (See #4) it looks like this might be one of those blood-for-oil things.
Posted by Bobby 2018-06-01 09:45||   2018-06-01 09:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Let the bigger do as he wants. As long as there is no US tax dollars or clandestine US intelligence involvement, permit the culling to continue and pass the popcorn.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-01 11:55||   2018-06-01 11:55|| Front Page Top

#16 He has helped before. I like his ideas and want him left alone to do what no one else will do.

Posted by newc 2018-06-01 13:14||   2018-06-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#17 From the article:

The conversion of crop dusters into light attack aircraft had long been part of Prince’s vision for defeating terrorists and insurgencies in Africa and the Middle East. In Prince’s view, these single-engine fixed-wing planes, retrofitted for war zones, would revolutionize the way small wars were fought.

Definitely Page 2: WoT Background, and vrey interesting.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-06-01 13:29||   2018-06-01 13:29|| Front Page Top

#18 He's an arm of the US State Department. Let that sink in for a moment.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-01 15:31||   2018-06-01 15:31|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm not so sure of that one Herb.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-01 16:32||   2018-06-01 16:32|| Front Page Top

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