I don’t bother with his movies. No hard information.
Still a lot of good info. What I love about his books is reaching the point where I shout, “It could work!”
I don’t think 30 gigabux is necessarily chickenfeed. They’ve gotten this far with less. So plan well. Toss some bribes here and there. Keep costs down by using last-war’s-model equipment–they aren’t armed any better than that. Bring the local anti-ISIS folks on-board, with your guys acting as advisors. Keep your name distant and make it look like a local response; plausible deniability is all the US government really needs from you.
It could work.
Isn’t there always the factor that nobody will really receive the reward? I don’t think anybody received anything for OBL, did they? Weren’t the Afghans suspicious of just this?
Could be wrong, tho.
Can be done on the cheap.
Send a bunch of mercanaries into the jungles of Thailand, looking for a missing group of Christian aid workers and hire a boatman to take you downriver…
They only took a few days to clean up the neighborhood from there, and didn’t look like it cost all that much.
Hire out that group after that.
it was a documntary I think…:dubious:
On a grislier tack…how much did it cost the Aum Shinrikyo cult to build their chemical/biological weapon program?
I mean, more people in power are going to be on the lookout for well-funded private maniacs trying to set up that kind of thing these days, and there are probably ethical issues involved, but, hey, if the billionaire really hated ISIS, and as long as we’re just wargaming…in for the penny, in for the pound, by hook or by crook, eh what?
In fact, the US ended up creating a market for people snatching up innocents and turning them in to the US for the bounty. http://www.detainedbyus.org/the-lucrative-bounty-program/
What are the legal barrier for hiring Academi or other mercenary companies?
Illegal in the USA, but there’s loopholes.