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		<title>The Soldier and the Scholar &#124; Reconciling Me Against Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>João Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been three weeks since my graduate studies have started at the New School, and I have spent some time reflecting on my time in service as well as my undergraduate studies. Upon personal introspection, I have found that throughout my undergraduate studies there was a struggle between two important forces in my persona: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joaohwang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4129163&amp;post=641&amp;subd=joaohwang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privatizing Force &#124; PMCs are double edged swords for international security</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 09:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>João Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we have discussed the need and utility that private military companies (PMC) serve for the US, we will also go ahead and assume that the same largely holds true for many developed countries where maintaining an expensive military is not palatable to their voting public. Additionally, it also holds true that citizens of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joaohwang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4129163&amp;post=623&amp;subd=joaohwang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 02:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>João Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s continue on with the discussion regarding private military and security companies from yesterday (REF: Erik Prince and Reflex Responses &#124; Privatizing the State&#8217;s Monopoly on the Use of Force). To maintain some clarity,  I am going to define my terms in this discussion. The term Private Military Company (PMC) will include private military companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joaohwang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4129163&amp;post=600&amp;subd=joaohwang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Erik Prince and Reflex Responses &#124; Privatizing the State&#8217;s Monopoly on the Use of Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 22:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>João Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way first: Erik Prince and Reflex Responses is driven primarily by profit, NOT by patriotism. Any private military or security company is driven by profit because ultimately it is a business and this needs to be understood first and foremost. The reason why that has to be established first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joaohwang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4129163&amp;post=577&amp;subd=joaohwang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anwar Al-Awlaki &#124; Tossing out the constitution, one extremist at a time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 23:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>João Hwang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the immediate aftermath of the Osama Bin Laden raid, the United States attempted to kill Anwar Al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric based in Yemen who is allegedly affiliated with Al-Qaida and has helped finance terrorist attacks against Americans. Al-Awlaki has not refuted these allegations, and although he disagrees with some of the details he confirms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joaohwang.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4129163&amp;post=560&amp;subd=joaohwang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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