Defensive Changes

John's been busy over at Global Guerrillas. This interesting post takes a broad look at the Russians outsourcing of defense.

The Russian Duma just passed a bill that would allow the energy monopolies, Gazprom and Transneft, to build their own security forces

In the same post I found the following quite interesting.

NATO, in its quest to remain relevant, is eyeing a role as a provider of security oil companies/oil exporting states (these companies will likely be responsive given that another Shell oil platform was attacked today in Nigeria).

Like any bureaucracy that has outlived its usefulness it tries to hang onto the budget bucks anyway it can.