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Re: Privitizing Defense

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Originally Posted by underboss View Post
You could say that terrorism is the privatization of war. Terrorists are the free marketers of war. They are people who don't believe that the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
Good point. And i will add to it by saying that because terrorists are better at violence they will inevitably defeat any western privatized defensive/aggressive market.

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