To take it to the other end of the spectrum, this author has personally experienced what happens to people, in foreign countries the United States occupies, when they are detained because their name matches a name on a terrorist watch list. ... What constitutes valuable intelligence? ... Will the intelligence prevent the imminent loss of life? ... Remember the Canadian citizen and his supposed valuable intelligence? ... Also, even if he did confess to being a terrorist, of what intelligence value is that? ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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For centuries, mankind has been consumed with the concepts of human nature and conflict in society. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two British philosophers, have spent a great deal of their lives thinking and arguing extensively on this subject. It was their passion, contentions and philosophies ab...

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