The other day I found something very rare in this industry–a blogger. There are not too many of us doing the blogging thing, so it is always a treat to find others who have a voice to share. So with that said, let me introduce to you Paladin Six.
Actually, his stuff reminds me a lot of what Tim Lynch is producing, and that is some ground truth about their little piece of the war effort. I am sure the milblogging community will find Paladin Six’s posts to be informative as well. I highly recommend putting this blog on your Google Reader to keep track of dispatches, and definitely don’t be a stranger when you visit Knights of Afghanistan. –Matt
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Paladin Six, the author of Knights of Afghanistan.
About Me
Coming up on one year in Afghanistan, serving as Country Manager for a local (all Afghan) private security company. Although I have some limited military experience, I am not one of those ex-Special Forces guys who gets written up in Rolling Stone. This is a business, not a frat party, and we treat it as such.
Knights of Afghanistan
Introduction (first post)
March, 2009
And so I’m off to Afghanistan. At the suggestion of many of those who know me well, I have decided to create a blog covering my experiences working in the private security industry in Kabul. For personal and professional reasons, this will be an anonymous endeavor, a place to put observations, discoveries and random musings (along with the occasional bit of critical thinking and punditry). I intend to keep the tone light and the style accessible; no claim is made to speak for the broader PSC community or of a monopoly on wisdom (I leave that for actual conversation). With a little luck, this might even be mildly entertaining, at least for me.
I’m new to this blogging thing, so there are likely to be numerous mistakes of content and style in what follows. In the interest of keeping up to date, I will sometimes be posting without the benefit of a thorough review. I hope to reduce the incidence of idiocy as time goes on. I think you’ll find that I tend to be somewhat less than fully in compliance with tenents of political correctness. I assure you this is entirely intentional. Get over it.