So this is interesting.  Here is a guy that works for the US Attorneys Office, who is former special forces and a reserve Army Intel guy, that writes this fantastic paper on the subject of Letters of Marque and Reprisal.  Does anyone else find that to be cool, or am I the only constitutional law […]

    Well duh. lol You guys don’t have to pay the pensions of contractors when their contract is done and the war is over. Of course the government loves to use this ‘disposable workforce’ called contractors.
     Thanks to David Isenberg who brought this to everyone’s attention through his blog, and you can read his […]

   Interesting report, and I thought private industry was bad.  These guys are government and the report only covers two years! I wonder how many weapons were lost in all the other years not covered in the report? -Matt
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Report: Officers lose 243 Homeland Security guns
February 18, 2010
Washington (CNN) — Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security […]

     Efforts to more uniformly manage protective forces have focused on either reforming the current contracting approach or creating a federal protective force (federalization). Either approach might provide for managing protective forces more uniformly and could result in effective security if well-managed. Although DOE rejected federalization as an option in 2009 because it believed […]

     Another great hidden gem of a paper about one of my favorite topics.  I also really perked up on the conclusions of the paper.  That privateering did not go away because the concept sucked. Nope.  It went away, because of competition with government owned Navies who wanted to do it all. It kind […]

   If you have the time, check out this excellent paper.  I loved it, because this is the kind of stuff that we need to be doing more of in this war. All it takes is one guy that we can use to deeply penetrate into Osama Bin Laden’s network or some drug cartel, and […]

DOD’s Use of PSCs is Iraq and Afghanistan 012010 R40835

   Ok folks, this is cool.  Sometimes I stumble upon stuff that really gets the juices flowing, and this is one of those deals.  Matt has written a very interesting paper that basically talks about using the Letter of Marque as a mechanism to control and manage PMC’s.  That with our current system, there is […]

   Ok folks, this is pretty important.  CNAS, like I have mentioned before, has the ears of the guys that advise the President on matters like this one.  As you can see, John Nagl is personally involved on this working paper, and you can read his stamp all over this thing. I have been waiting […]