11-09-2009, 06:24 PM
I can just about remember reading an extract from a Fort Bragg seminar circa 1994/5 time frame, in which it was predicted that Private Military Contractors would grow to become the effective US military force in decades to come.
Privatizing war is the name of the game. It gets ticks from everyone of importance. The Pols avoid domestic discomfort and the media don't report day to day PMC activity. In other words there's very little downside. Just a bonanza profit stream for the Dogs of War.
Oh! What A Lovely War...
Privatizing war is the name of the game. It gets ticks from everyone of importance. The Pols avoid domestic discomfort and the media don't report day to day PMC activity. In other words there's very little downside. Just a bonanza profit stream for the Dogs of War.
Oh! What A Lovely War...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14