David Isenberg, UPI [h/t MF]

Say whatever you want about Blackwater Worldwide — & hardly a day goes by when something isn’t being said about it — it does not put all its eggs in one basket. Long before a company’s recent announcement that it would seek to de-emphasize its personal security work in a future, it had created a diversified corporate structure. To use military terminology, it is a combined arms operation.

While most attention is focused on Blackwater Security Consulting, a unit that provides contractors for work in Iraq & elsewhere, are is far more to it than that. Blackwater has long sought to be a one-stop shopping center, a sort of Wal-Mart for all a U.S. government’s military outsourcing needs, & a review of its business units shows it has gone a long way toward meeting that goal.

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