Chirol On Militias
Couple things on the topic of this post (basically exploring a way to nicely unwind the state).
- Not militias. Private military corporations. More precisely, Chirol’s put together a framework on how to set about the regulation of domestic PMCs.
- If you’re assuming the level of PMC activity that’s implicit in this argument, the state has, for all intents and purposes of security anyway, collapsed. Whatever power it enjoys is focused on regulating the unwinding of the state (my chapter in Threats in the Age of Obama was on that very topic).
- Forsake the national border. Defending it is an expensive waste of time. Focus should be on mitigating the fact that the map melted.
- If you take this to its logical conclusion, you end up with what I talked about here (nation-states as PMC market distortions), and here (private insurgencies).
-Shlok
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