You can always tell propaganda from the dramatic word choices of the author.

Where that mission failed was training and using locals vs keeping Western security professionals on hand to do the work. Trusting skinnies, hajjis and whatnot is always a losing bet, but my limited experience in Africa showed me that infrastructure and the like protected by White men become areas of stability and prosperity for the locals.

What drives our industry is a small military and lots of dumbass missions keeping that small military thin on the ground, as well as NGOs wanting to do hippie shit in dangerous places and the government wanting a degree of separation, i.e. ablity to lie about what it’s up to. Also, we are a regulated industry, with rules set by the State Department and what have you, but we have much reasonable rules of engagement and an excellent which infuriates the left.

At any rate, I have not read the book, and probably won’t given the authors background (doing the training work vs direct action so to speak), but the article shows a political axe to grind and a lack of understanding.

Additionally, the military industrial complex — increasingly private, though in a corporatist sense — thrives.

I believe we will see a Gaza-fication. I picked up that concept from some progressive journalists who saw parallels between Gaza and what Brazil did to its poor in order to get the World Cup last year. I think they even hired the Israeli company Rafael to do some drone work or something.

The progressives notice what is being done to the poor and undesirable, but they don’t realize the clean places these people are kept out of also function like little prisons too.
I figure America will have a series of little Gazas — Baltimore, Ferguson, etc. — all act as marketing for it. Then there are all the illegals, not to mention those here legally who really shouldn’t be.