The move would be hugely expensive for the U.S. Boots on the ground would increase the risk of Americans getting killed, captured, and potentially beheaded, regardless of whether those boots belonged to mercenaries or members of the regular military.

There are plenty of reasons why this could be a bad idea. 'If the old Blackwater team were still together, I have high confidence that a multi-brigade-size unit of veteran American contractors or a multi-national force could be rapidly assembled and deployed to be that necessary ground combat team,' Prince wrote on the website of his new company (which is teaming up with China to tap into Africa’s natural resources). government should 'let the private sector finish the job.'

The former CEO of Blackwater thinks he knows how to defeat the Islamic State: American mercenaries.Įrik Prince, the founder of the private security company notorious for its huge government contracts and violent and often reckless conduct in Iraq, wrote this week that, 'If the Administration cannot rally the political nerve or funding to send adequate active duty ground forces to answer the call,' the U.S.

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