http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/world/middleeast/15prince.html
The full article is 5 pages long.
- Recruited from Columbia and South Africa (non-Muslim areas that have seen conflict) no Muslims in case they're required to kill them.
- Some legal questions arise stateside when you're an American citizen training foreign troops without explicit permission.
- Men are kept tightly confined and forbidden from outside contact, aside from the regular visits to the movies or prostitutes. Mitchdubai is believed to be working as a 'morale officer.'
- Could be used for suppression of an 'Arab Spring' uprising though they were formed before it all began.
- Main use seems to be as an assault force against Iran, most likely on a chain of uninhabited Iran-garrisoned islands that could have oil.
- Planned force strength is an 800 man battalion, could go up to a brigade of several thousand after they 'prove themselves in a real world mission.'
Read the article this morning, will be pretty interesting to see how the whole army for hire thing works out once they start setting up fully functional battalions.
The full article is 5 pages long.
- Recruited from Columbia and South Africa (non-Muslim areas that have seen conflict) no Muslims in case they're required to kill them.
- Some legal questions arise stateside when you're an American citizen training foreign troops without explicit permission.
- Men are kept tightly confined and forbidden from outside contact, aside from the regular visits to the movies or prostitutes. Mitchdubai is believed to be working as a 'morale officer.'
- Could be used for suppression of an 'Arab Spring' uprising though they were formed before it all began.
- Main use seems to be as an assault force against Iran, most likely on a chain of uninhabited Iran-garrisoned islands that could have oil.
- Planned force strength is an 800 man battalion, could go up to a brigade of several thousand after they 'prove themselves in a real world mission.'
Read the article this morning, will be pretty interesting to see how the whole army for hire thing works out once they start setting up fully functional battalions.
