https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/a-brontosaurus-with-three-teeth/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/a-brontosaurus-with-three-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-353605 Drunken Hobo Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:02:09 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26268#comment-353605 I wonder if that’s a fair assessment. In a force like Blackwater’s, most of the troops engage in fighting. In a state force, most of the troops are a deterrent so that there is less fighting. Also, the overhead of a state military allows it to skim the very best of a very large pool of troops and equipment and mount operations like the bin Laden raid that smaller forces could not accomplish.

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