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Blackwater sends warship to Gulf of Aden
• Lloyd's ListBLACKWATER — the US private military contractor embroiled in controversy over its actions in Iraq — has sent a private sector warship equipped with helicopters to the Gulf of Aden, and is offering its services to shipowners concerned with piracy.
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There is a HUGE free-rider problem here. If Blackwater succeeds in making the Gulf of Aden safer, any ship transiting that region that isn't paying Blackwater is an identifiable free-rider, yet Blackwater is willing to offer the service anyway.
Were it another company. However, I'm willing to take proof where I find it.
As much as I do not like Blackwater Brock, that was exactly my first thought. My second was if I started a mercenary company and provided this serve being based out of the US I would be arrested for operating a mercenary group and interfering in the USA's foreign business. And if I ran my company outside the USA I would be killed for being a pirate.
Quite a mouthful, I know, but the trick is to always pick the winning side. That's the market regulation of this job.