 Private armys, real life gets closer to SR |
 Oct 2 2007, 03:14 PM
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These are the guys in Iraq now, but you read about them or hear about them on the news and it seems pletty clear you are looking at an extraterritorial strike team. They have military grade weapons and do not answer to the police or army. the US State dept is supposed to hold their leash but are not watching them. |
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Daddy's Little Ninja Private armys Oct 2 2007, 03:14 PM
Kagetenshi You may want to review the history of the British ... Oct 2 2007, 03:53 PM nezumi I'm pretty sure you've been scooped a long... Oct 2 2007, 04:05 PM Fix-it what we need is a Battletech-style Mercenary Regul... Oct 2 2007, 05:27 PM Mercer The most interesting part of the Blackwater compan... Oct 2 2007, 07:16 PM nezumi I hadn't heard about the "two men and a l... Oct 2 2007, 07:29 PM Kagetenshi You really think they'll take responsibility f... Oct 2 2007, 08:36 PM nezumi Yes, because otherwise they lose the contract. I ... Oct 2 2007, 09:05 PM Wounded Ronin The way I see it Blackwater allows the President t... Oct 2 2007, 11:10 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (nezumi) But all contractors want to get pai... Oct 2 2007, 11:51 PM Cthulhudreams I honestly think it is faintly absurd that governm... Oct 3 2007, 01:33 AM Emperor Tippy QUOTE (Cthulhudreams) I honestly think it is faint... Oct 3 2007, 01:51 AM Daddy's Little Ninja This is not just a corporate army Nezumi, that is ... Oct 3 2007, 02:24 PM Kagetenshi Still not new, see again John Company.
~J Oct 3 2007, 02:27 PM nezumi QUOTE (Kagetenshi) QUOTE (nezumi @ Oct 2 2007... Oct 3 2007, 05:36 PM Emperor Tippy Every mercenary in Iraq right now is completely im... Oct 3 2007, 06:31 PM nezumi QUOTE (Emperor Tippy) Every mercenary in Iraq righ... Oct 3 2007, 06:36 PM Fortune QUOTE (Emperor Tippy) Every mercenary in Iraq righ... Oct 3 2007, 06:36 PM mfb the key there is "under Iraq law". i bel... Oct 3 2007, 06:56 PM Emperor Tippy http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/2...ith_A... Oct 3 2007, 07:17 PM Emperor Tippy QUOTE (mfb) the key there is "under Iraq law... Oct 3 2007, 07:18 PM mfb QUOTE (Emperor Tippy)Nope. No one who is not actua... Oct 3 2007, 07:21 PM Emperor Tippy It doesn't actually do anything. None of the s... Oct 3 2007, 07:41 PM Moon-Hawk QUOTE (Emperor Tippy) The Blackwater guy apparentl... Oct 3 2007, 07:45 PM mfb you're making it sound like there is no law at... Oct 3 2007, 07:45 PM nezumi QUOTE (Emperor Tippy @ Oct 3 2007, 02:17 PM) ... Oct 3 2007, 07:48 PM Emperor Tippy QUOTE (nezumi) QUOTE (Emperor Tippy @ Oct 3 2... Oct 3 2007, 07:57 PM mfb a legal haze is not the same as a complete lack of... Oct 3 2007, 08:01 PM Emperor Tippy Actually the Supreme court has ruled both ways in ... Oct 3 2007, 08:11 PM Emperor Tippy Oh, and according to a July 2007 report from the C... Oct 3 2007, 08:19 PM nezumi Like I said, people have been put in jail for goin... Oct 3 2007, 08:24 PM Emperor Tippy QUOTE Like I said, people have been put in jail fo... Oct 3 2007, 08:30 PM Asheron According to "Protocol Additional to the Gene... Oct 4 2007, 04:03 AM Emperor Tippy They can't be designated as mercenaries for ex... Oct 4 2007, 05:01 AM Kagetenshi QUOTE (Emperor Tippy) And no US citizen can be cha... Oct 4 2007, 05:25 AM Emperor Tippy Put it this way, any international body that holds... Oct 4 2007, 05:55 AM Asheron Americans have been executed as mercenaries before... Oct 4 2007, 06:06 AM Emperor Tippy Americans have been executed as mercenaries in the... Oct 4 2007, 06:21 AM Lindt And this mess is why layers should be shot on sigh... Oct 4 2007, 07:10 PM mfb well, that's the thing. they are being treated... Oct 4 2007, 07:18 PM hyzmarca The Hauge Invasion Act was a brilliant idea, thoug... Oct 4 2007, 08:41 PM nezumi Alright, I'll bite, why do you say that? Oct 4 2007, 09:12 PM hyzmarca The Lord's Resistance Army is a Christian para... Oct 4 2007, 09:41 PM Wounded Ronin There are really only two more valid comments whic... Oct 4 2007, 11:24 PM SuperFly I'm pretty shocked that nobody knew about Blac... Oct 5 2007, 05:34 PM mfb yeah... i mean, no offense to anyone, but how are ... Oct 5 2007, 05:50 PM Emperor Tippy QUOTE (mfb) yeah... i mean, no offense to anyone, ... Oct 5 2007, 06:09 PM nezumi Why? Because there's a large contingent of pe... Oct 5 2007, 06:25 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (SuperFly) after they've done so many th... Oct 5 2007, 06:42 PM hyzmarca National armies aren't allowed to fire expandi... Oct 5 2007, 06:58 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (hyzmarca) Sometimes, the reasons why nation... Oct 5 2007, 07:10 PM SuperFly Justifiable a lot of the time because your adversa... Oct 6 2007, 12:10 AM FrankTrollman QUOTE (SuperFly) Justifiable a lot of the time bec... Oct 6 2007, 10:35 AM hyzmarca Except that codes of conduct can often make dealin... Oct 6 2007, 01:34 PM Mercer War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
Putting... Oct 6 2007, 02:03 PM mfb QUOTE (FrankTrollman)You do realize that instituti... Oct 6 2007, 03:26 PM Kagetenshi The US with Great Patriotic War-era Japan, sorta.
... Oct 6 2007, 03:32 PM mfb i was thinking of that when i worded my post--i ha... Oct 6 2007, 03:36 PM Kagetenshi Oh, I see what you meant there. Yeah, nothing come... Oct 6 2007, 03:41 PM Kyoto Kid ...same era - Germany, Italy.
Japan has just move... Oct 6 2007, 05:52 PM Mercer Times change faster than people. Oct 6 2007, 11:04 PM Kagetenshi Buster Friendly says people rot faster than times.... Oct 6 2007, 11:40 PM Mercer Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banan... Oct 7 2007, 01:48 AM FrankTrollman QUOTE i'm not a history buff, so maybe i'm... Oct 7 2007, 10:55 AM nezumi QUOTE (Mercer) "All right, let's fight a ... Oct 7 2007, 11:31 AM mfb QUOTE (FrankTrollman)examples
i don't believe ... Oct 7 2007, 04:53 PM Grinder QUOTE (FrankTrollman) QUOTE i'm not a history ... Oct 7 2007, 05:18 PM hyzmarca I must also point out that India didn't invade... Oct 7 2007, 05:36 PM warrior_allanon Grinder, look at the relationship between Vichy Fr... Oct 7 2007, 07:57 PM hyzmarca Having a friendly puppet government doesn't pr... Oct 7 2007, 08:01 PM Mercer QUOTE (nezumi)I believe it was the battle of Getty... Oct 7 2007, 08:07 PM Grinder QUOTE (hyzmarca) Having a friendly puppet governme... Oct 7 2007, 08:11 PM FrankTrollman QUOTE I must also point out that India didn't ... Oct 7 2007, 09:14 PM Grinder QUOTE (FrankTrollman) QUOTE Most people in France ... Oct 7 2007, 09:35 PM Kyoto Kid QUOTE (Grinder) As for making up SS divisions, tur... Oct 7 2007, 10:54 PM FrankTrollman QUOTE (Grinder)As for making up SS divisions, turn... Oct 8 2007, 05:33 AM tisoz QUOTE (FrankTrollman) Of course, we probably hit c... Oct 8 2007, 07:57 AM Grinder Frank, I agree with most of your statements, but i... Oct 8 2007, 01:38 PM mfb yeah. Frank, by your standards, we've already ... Oct 8 2007, 02:40 PM Kagetenshi So is four years too short, or did Germany decline... Oct 8 2007, 03:20 PM Grinder It's too short - even in other coutries that w... Oct 8 2007, 03:54 PM Kagetenshi But the problem with that reasoning is that then y... Oct 8 2007, 04:02 PM FrankTrollman The Nazi program was sufficiently reprehensible th... Oct 8 2007, 04:04 PM Grinder Hopefully the Nazis and today's US Army don... Oct 8 2007, 04:06 PM Roadspike This is rather off the original topic, but as far ... Oct 8 2007, 04:18 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (FrankTrollman) France was policing itself a... Oct 8 2007, 04:21 PM mfb QUOTE (Grinder @ Oct 8 2007, 11:06 AM) Hopefu... Oct 9 2007, 01:54 AM Fortune QUOTE (mfb) ignoring the the moment the policies o... Oct 9 2007, 01:56 AM Fix-it QUOTE (Roadspike) Very few people know that the Am... Oct 9 2007, 03:03 AM FrankTrollman Yeah, you run through one hospital with a no-dachi... Oct 9 2007, 06:25 AM Kronk2 QUOTE (nezumi) Blackwater definitely IS cheaper. ... Oct 9 2007, 07:54 AM Kronk2 Also Blackwater does not need to follow the Geneva... Oct 9 2007, 07:56 AM FlakJacket Whilst private armies like Blackwater USA have bee... Oct 10 2007, 12:28 AM Kagetenshi Nothing says "serious business" like a 4... Oct 10 2007, 01:09 AM Zhan Shi In regards to piracy, the History Channel had a ve... Oct 10 2007, 02:27 AM pbangarth QUOTE (mfb) if they're an uppity population, t... Oct 10 2007, 02:29 AM FlakJacket QUOTE (Kagetenshi) Nothing says "serious busi... Oct 10 2007, 04:05 AM Zhan Shi Ugh. Nice epitaph, FlackJacket. I'm going to... Oct 10 2007, 04:42 AM martindv QUOTE (Zhan Shi @ Oct 9 2007, 09:27 PM) Execu... Oct 11 2007, 06:55 PM
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