Founder of Blackwater (later Academi), the private military contractor whose employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre. Brother of Betsy DeVos. Has pursued private intelligence and military ventures in the UAE, Libya, and through Frontier Services Group in China. Represents the privatisation of military force — the same logic that runs through the network's approach to government contracting.
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