Notes of Late

Scavenging polemics, another (counter)point to self for future research: the history of mercenaries.

Regarding the rise in the employment of contractors in international peacekeeping:

The appropriate analogy to be drawn here may not be with old-style mercenaries or the French Foreign Legion but with ExxonMobil, Total, and other multinational corporations that assume some functions of the state in which they operate (Chesterman, IHT).