They may be there in skeletal form but
I doubt they are up and running.
I'm sure Blackwater, LLC. can man them
if the need arises. We have our own
Praetorian Guard, Blackwater - a 25,000
strong private army. Private contractors
by any other name.
My only examples are the attacks on the USS Maddux
resulting in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution resulting in
the US deploying 500,000 troops to SE Asia and the
USS Maine resulting in the US involvement in the
Spanish-American War.
Neither are apt parallels. What could Britain do?
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