But largely you're right, the story is more complicated. I originally heard it in a non-English interview with some Colonel (OF-5, the rank just below General of brigade).
Personally I am very much against the idea of a democratic nation allowing a private company have a combat strength of an infantry brigade. Definitely too much. (And of course such structures, if they exist, must be penetrated by intelligence, though this is not something you can legislate or even admit).
Right, I wasn't disagreeing that they said that they can supply forces (and that article is a year before Blackwater forces were involved in the Nisour Square Massacre in Iraq), just that the Pentagon didn't shut them down in response to them saying it, though the relationship wuth the government was complicated by what troops they supplied did not long after that.
But largely you're right, the story is more complicated. I originally heard it in a non-English interview with some Colonel (OF-5, the rank just below General of brigade).
Personally I am very much against the idea of a democratic nation allowing a private company have a combat strength of an infantry brigade. Definitely too much. (And of course such structures, if they exist, must be penetrated by intelligence, though this is not something you can legislate or even admit).