Monday, July 28, 2008

For Sale: High-Tech, Lethal WeaponsPrivate military companies are expanding their offerings to clients with the latest in high-tech weapons - CommonDr

For Sale: High-Tech, Lethal WeaponsPrivate military companies are expanding their offerings to clients with the latest in high-tech weapons - CommonDreams.org

We are seeing an increasing amalgamation of public/private enterprises in military "services". I was confident in the wake of 911 that the war on terror would fatten the wallets of many homeland security companies. A natural outgrowth of the "military-industrial complex.

Will come a day, I predict, when American services will either be called on to go up against an independent army supported by American corporate charters. Or worse, be called on to support such a force in executing illegal incursions in countries around the world.

One day, will all military forces "controlled" by US interests all still obey the same general? Might it be up to a strong-man commander in chief to reign in all the factions that can afford to field an army?

Maybe it had been about feudalism all along and we never saw it?

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