This article was published as a feature in Parachutist Magazine, December 2011 issue.
Skydiving changes our lives, and in turn we can use skydiving to change the world. As beginners, we look at the…
Eric “tonto” Stephenson’s Logbook Jump No.: 5314
Date: Sunday, 28 October 2007
Location: JSC
Equipment: Velocity 84
Aircraft: Porter ZS-IHB
Altitude: 11,000 feet
Type Jump: AFF
Freefall Time: 48 seconds
Sunday dawns clear in…
I used Scribd to share my PowerPoint presentation – some of the formatting is lost, but here it is.
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For the pdf with full photo layout of this article, click: Flying to Inspire 01-10
By Taya Weiss, Parachutist, January 2010
There are two lingering images from the U.S. national wingsuit record set on November 11 at Skydive Elsinore in…
Read More...I contributed a chapter, along with my co-author Angela McIntyre, to the book “Weak Governments in Search of Strength: Africa’s experience of mercenaries and private military companies”, edited by Simon Chesterman and Chia Lenhardt, From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies, London: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The book is available in paperback on Amazon.com.
The chapter seeks to illustrate change and continuity in the use of private force on the African continent, and argues that Private Military Companies (PMCs) are sometimes used to safeguard commercial interests that are the very source of discontent in local politics, leading to complications in regulation at the nexus of states, multinational corporations, and exploitation of natural resources.
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