Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Nairobi-based company associated with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, has announced it is expanding to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The logistics company said it had entered into an agreement to buy a private DRC-based transporter for an undisclosed amount. FSG said the proposed acquisition will enable […]
Erik Prince needs no uniform or medals to display his military credentials. Once you have seen his brisk walk, been on the receiving end of his vice-like handshake and looked into his steely eyes, you know this is indeed a man of military mettle. But the former United States Navy SEALs member and co-founder of […]
Seven years ago, Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince was on Capitol Hill, defending the company he founded as it faced allegations that his employees had shot up a square in Baghdad a few weeks prior on Sept. 16, 2007, killing 14 civilians and wounding 17 others. Prince insisted that day that all of his employees had acted […]
MOSCOW — The US private military company Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) has confirmed its readiness to start training a Ukrainian battalion for street fighting, a military-diplomatic source told TASS on Tuesday. “The private military company Academi has confirmed to the Kiev authorities its readiness to start training an experimental battalion of 550 men as […]
Erik Prince is not whining, he wants that clear. “However much I had to put up with, in terms of the assault from all sides, from the lawyers and the bureaucrats, pales in comparison to guys who lost their lives, who were maimed, either active-duty military or contractors,” he says. “I’m just providing a cautionary […]