David Isenberg’s Vita: Publications

Publications

· Washington Babylon, Six Questions for National Security Analyst David Isenberg on Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth and the Questions He Should Have Been Asked During His Confirmation Hearings, January 21, 2025, https://www.washingtonbabylondc.com/p/six-questions-for-national-security

· ResearchGate, The DIA on the Perils and Pitfalls of Private Security, June 2022, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361265062_The_DIA_on_the_Perils_and_Pitfalls_of_Private_Security

· Responsible Statecraft, “After 20 years, Pentagon still lacks control over hired guns,” August 6, 2021, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/08/06/after-20-years-pentagon-still-lacks-control-over-hired-guns/

· Responsible Statecraft, “Onto Libya: Where there’s a failed U.S. war policy, Erik Prince is there,” March 4, 2021, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/04/onto-libya-where-theres-a-failed-u-s-war-policy-erik-prince-is-there/

· Responsible Statecraft, “Erik Prince can take his ‘have gun will travel’ schtick right back out the door,” December 4, 2020, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/12/04/erik-prince-can-take-his-old-have-gun-will-travel-schtick-right-back-out-the-door/

· Responsible Statecraft, “The Energizer Bunny temporarily runs out of juice,” February 13, 2020, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/02/13/erik-prince-energizer-bunny/.

· Responsible Statecraft, “Libya has been Flooded with Mercenaries and Private Military Companies,” February 5, 2020, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/02/05/libya-has-been-flooded-with-mercenaries-and-private-military-companies/.

· Responsible Statecraft, “Catch-22 in Afghanistan,” January 12, 2020, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/01/12/catch-22-in-afghanistan.

· Responsible Statecraft, “One of the Biggest Tragedies From the ‘Afghanistan Papers’ is that Nobody Cares,” December 19, 2019, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2019/12/19/one-of-the-biggest-tragedies-from-the-afghanistan-papers-is-that-nobody-cares.

· LobeLog, “PJC = Private Jihadi Contractor,” October 21, 2019, https://lobelog.com/pjc-private-jihadi-contractor.

· Asia Times, “The dirty business of detaining refugees,” April 6, 2019, https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/04/article/the-dirty-business-of-detaining-refugees/.

· Asia Times, “Why America can’t win wars,” February 1, 2019, https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/02/article/why-america-cant-win-wars/.

· Asia Times, “Western mercenaries ready for Syria; Russians already there,” January 15, 2019, http://www.atimes.com/article/western-mercenaries-locked-loaded-and-ready-to-go/.

· Asia Times, “Old-school karate still alive and kicking in 21st century Okinawa,” December 22, 2018, http://www.atimes.com/article/old-school-karate-still-alive-and-kicking-in-21st-century-okinawa/

· LobeLog, “The Energizer Bunny Goes to China,” August 29, 2018, https://lobelog.com/the-energizer-bunny-goes-to-china.

· LobeLog, “Wagner vs. the Russian Media,” August 13, 2018, https://lobelog.com/wagner-vs-the-russian-media.

· LobeLog, “The UAE in Yemen: With a Lot of Help from its Mercs,” June 19, 2018, https://lobelog.com/the-uae-in-yemen-with-a-lot-of-help-from-its-mercs/.

· LobeLog, “US and Russia Compete to Privatize Syrian War,” May 21, 2018, https://lobelog.com/us-and-russia-compete-to-privatize-syrian-war.

· LobeLog,” Erik Prince and Big Data,” April 5, 2018, https://lobelog.com/erik-prince-and-big-data/

· The American Conservative, “Putin’s Pocket Army? The Rise of Russian Mercenaries in Syria,” February 15, 2018, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/putins-pocket-army-the-rise-of-russian-mercenaries-in-syria/

· LobeLog,” The Credibility of Erik Prince,” August 29, 2017, http://lobelog.com/the-credibility-of-erik-prince/.

· LobeLog, “Why Feinberg and Prince Are Offensive,” July 20, 2017, http://lobelog.com/why-feinberg-and-prince-are-offensive.

· LobeLog, “Erik Prince to Prince bin Zayed: The Private Military Connection,” July 7, 2017, http://lobelog.com/erik-prince-to-prince-bin-zayed-the-private-military-connection.

· LobeLog, “Is It Satire or Is It Sallyport?” May 12, 2017, http://lobelog.com/is-it-satire-or-is-it-sallyport.

· LobeLog, “Trump and the PISS Industry,” March 1, 2017, http://lobelog.com/trump-and-the-piss-industry.

Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, “Making American Education Great Again,” January 24, 2017
http://iissonline.net/making-american-education-great-again.

· LobeLog, “Trump and the Return of Private Military Contractors,” January 23, 2017, http://lobelog.com/trump-and-the-return-of-private-military-contractors.

· LobeLog, “Africa: A Goldmine for Security Contractors,” November 30, 2016, http://lobelog.com/africa-a-goldmine-for-security-contractors

· LobeLog, “The Real Winner of the 2016 Elections,” November 14, 2016, http://lobelog.com/the-real-winner-of-the-2016-elections.

· LobeLog, “The Impact of Money in Politics on National Security,” October 28, 2016, http://lobelog.com/the-impact-of-money-in-politics-on-national-security/

· LobeLog, “What Makes Erik Run?,” April 25, 2016, http://lobelog.com/what-makes-erik-run.

· LobeLog, “Russia Leads the Way to a PMC Future,” April 6, 2016, http://lobelog.com/russia-leads-the-way-to-a-pmc-future.

· LobeLog, “Erik Prince: Energizer Bunny,” March 29, 2016, http://lobelog.com/erik-prince-energizer-bunny.

· LobeLog, “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Don’t Fire,” March 21, 2016, http://lobelog.com/when-the-going-gets-tough-the-tough-dont-fire/.

· LobeLog, “From Russia, With War,” March 17, 2016, https://lobelog.com/from-russia-with-war/.

· LobeLog, “When Crime Pays for Private Military Contractors,” March 2, 2016, https://lobelog.com/when-crime-pays-for-private-military-contractors/

· LobeLog, “The Rise of the Development Industrial Complex,” February 5, 2016, https://lobelog.com/the-rise-of-the-development-industrial-complex.

· LobeLog, “The Origin of the New Species of Drone Operator,” December 28, 2015, http://lobelog.com/the-origin-of-the-new-species-of-drone-operator/.

· LobeLog, “Pentagon: We Come to Facilitate,” November 4, 2015, http://lobelog.com/pentagon-we-come-to-facilitate/.

· LobeLog, “Letter to Congress: Support Iran Deal Now,” July 30, 2015, http://www.lobelog.com/letter-to-congress-support-iran-deal-now/.

· Small Wars Journal, June 8, 2015, “The Ghost of Conflict Yet to Come,” http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-ghost-of-conflict-yet-to-come.

· “Ask a Senior Analyst — David Isenberg,” Wikistrat, February 16, 2015, http://www.wikistrat.com/ask-a-senior-analyst-david-isenberg/

· Mint Press News, “Erik Prince: What Doesn’t He Know And When Didn’t He Know It?” January 8, 2015, http://www.mintpressnews.com/MyMPN/erik-prince-doesnt-know-didnt-know.

· LobeLog, “CIA = Contracting Intelligence Agency,” December 12, 2014, http://www.lobelog.com/cia-contracting-intelligence-agency.

· Mint Press News, “Private Sadism Companies & The Torture Report,” December 10, 2014, http://www.mintpressnews.com/MyMPN/psc-private-sadism-companies-torture-report.

· Mint Press News, “Now, That’s Chutzpah!, , September 24, 2014, http://www.mintpressnews.com/MyMPN/now-thats-chutzpah.

· Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, September 8, 2014, “The Mother of All Security Details,” http://iissonline.net/the-mother-of-all-security-details/

· Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, August 27, 2014, “Say This Seven Times Fast: See Security Contractors Save Ships at Sea,” http://iissonline.net/say-this-seven-times-fast-see-security-contractors-save-ships-at-sea.

Interview with David Isenberg, January 15, 2014 by Patrick Renz and Frauke Heidemann, http://www.international-relations.asia/david-isenberg-analyst-in-national-and-international-security-affairs.

· Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, January 21, 2014,, “HOW KELLOGG, BROWN AND ROOT BECAME INVOLVED IN USG WORK ON IRAQ OIL MATTERS,” http://iissonline.net/how-kellogg-brown-and-root-became-involved-in-usg-work-on-iraq-oil-matters.

· Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, January 6, 2014, “PMSC Regulators: Preparing for the Last War,” http://iissonline.net/pmsc-regulators-preparing-for-the-last-war.

· LobeLog, October 24, 2013, “Sheldon Adelson: Billionaire Comedian of the Year,” http://www.lobelog.com/sheldon-adelson-billionaire-comedian-of-the-year.

· Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, October 18, 2013, “Protecting the Victims of the Privatization of War,” http://iissonline.net/protecting-the-victims-of-the-privatization-of-war-3.

· Time Magazine, Battleland, July 23, 2013, “Are Private Contractors Really Cheaper?” http://nation.time.com/2013/07/23/are-private-contractors-really-cheaper.

· “Afghan security contractor force poses stability risks,” Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, July 22, 2013.

· Huffington Post,January 28, 2012 “Putting Credibility Into a Code of Conduct,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/putting-credibility-into-conduct_b_2563928.html.

· Time Magazine, Battleland, January 18, 2013, “Lawbreakers at War: How Responsible Are They?” http://nation.time.com/2013/01/18/lawbreakers-at-war-how-responsible-are-they.

· Huffington Post,January 15, 2012 “So Tell Us What You Really Think,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contractors_b_2468620.html.

· Time Magazine, Battleland, January 7, 2013, “Thinking of Suing a Private Military Contractor? There May Be a Way…,” http://nation.time.com/2013/01/07/thinking-of-suing-a-private-military-contractor-there-may-be-a-way.

· LobeLog, January 7, 2012, “Iran: the Nuclear Dog that can’t Bark,” http://www.lobelog.com/iran-the-nuclear-dog-that-cant-bark.

· Huffington Post, December 27, 2012 “A Third Way for PMSC Legal Accountability,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/third-way-pmsc-accountability_b_2367913.html.

· Huffington Post, December 26, 2012 “Take My Neocon — Please,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/take-my-neoconplease_b_2341331.html.

· Huffington Post, December 21, 2012 “The Ghost of Contracting Past,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-ghost-of-contracting-_b_2335080.html.

· Huffington Post, December 17, 2012 “Intra-Masculine Bonds and Butt Cracks,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/intramasculine-bonds-and-cracks_b_2313357.html.

· Huffington Post, December 10, 2012 “Putting the Principle in PMSC Use,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/putting-the-principle-psmc_b_2273472.html.

· Huffington Post, December 4, 2012 “PMC = Protean Military Contractor,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-protean-military-contractor_b_2234325.html

· Huffington Post, November 29, 2012, “PMC = Private Military Costs,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-private-military-cost_b_2208825.html.

· Huffington Post, November 28, 2012, “The Many PMC Faces of NATO,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-many-pmc-faces-of-nato_b_2200697.html.

· Huffington Post, November 25, 2012, “Sex, Violence, David Petraues and PSC in Afghanistan,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contractors_b_2186212.html.

Gulf States Newsletter, 22 November 2012, “Iraq: Status of Russian Arms Deal Unclear,” pp. 9-10.
· Huffington Post, November 19, 2012, “What Role for PMC in Today’s World?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/role-pmc-todays-world_b_2156000.html.

· Huffington Post, November 13, 2012, “How Do You Handle 70,000 Unemployed Afghan PSC? Very Carefully,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/unemployed-afghan-psc-_b_2091102.html.

· Huffington Post, November 1, 2012, “The Latest Skinny From SIGIR,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/latest-skinny-from-sigir_b_2049960.html.

· Huffington Post, October 30, 2012, “Why Fighting Pirates Is Both Good and Bad for PSC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/why-fighting-pirates_b_2044228.html.

· Time Magazine, Battleland, “October 26, 2012, “Shifting Defense Expenditures in East Asia,”

· Huffington Post, October 23, 2012, “The Changing State of International Relations: The PMSC Impact,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/changing-state-of-international-relations_b_2001839.html.

· PMSCO/IISS, October 22, 2012, “Heavy Metal in Iraq,” http://iissonline.net/?p=3180.

· Huffington Post, October 18, 2012, “Predator Military Contractors: Privatizing the Drones,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractors-privatizing-the-drones_b_1976650.html

· Time Magazine, Battleland, “The Myth of “Surgical Strikes” on Iran,” October 18, 2012, http://nation.time.com/2012/10/18/the-myth-of-surgical-strikes-on-iran/.

Huffington Post, October 15, 2012, “A Contractor, Wrapped in Mystery, Inside an Enigma,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractor-wrapped-in-mystery_b_1963093.html.

· PMSCO/IISS, October 15, 2012, “See SPOT Develop,” http://iissonline.net/?p=3080.

· Time Magazine, Battleland, “Contractors in War Zones: Not Exactly “Contracting,” October 9, 2012, http://nation.time.com/2012/10/09/contractors-in-war-zones-not-exactly-contracting.

· Huffington Post, October 5, 2012, “Getting Data for the Debate: All Hail DTM,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/data-for-the-debate_b_1937996.html.
· Huffington Post, October 2, 2012, “Deconstructing the PMSC Frame,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/deconstructing-the-pmsc-frame_b_1933322.html.
· Huffington Post, September 28, 2012, “Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Company?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/rid-me-of-company_b_1921574.html.
· Huffington Post, September 27, 2012, “The Perils of the Punctilious PMSC Prosecution,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-perils-of-the-punctil_b_1892036.html.
· PMSCO/IISS, September 24, 2012, “The Perils of the Punctilious PMSC Prosecution,” http://iissonline.net/?p=2849&preview=true.
· Huffington Post, September 24, 2012, “Counting the CFTE,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/counting-the-cfte_b_1902377.html.
· Huffington Post, September 18, 2012, “Zero Tolerance Should Not Mean Zero Action,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/zero-tolerance-zero-action_b_1892121.html.
· Huffington Post, September 14, 2012, “The PMSC Silver Lining in the Indian Ocean Cloud,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/psmc-silver-lining-ocean_b_1882851.html.
· Huffington Post, September 12, 2012, “What Would Al Say? Putting the Federalist Back in Federal Contracting,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/what-would-al-say_b_1877659.html.
· Huffington Post, September 11, 2012, “Joe Biden’s Uncounted Angels,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/joe-bidens-uncounted-angels_b_1867971.html?utm_hp_ref=tw.
· Huffington Post, September 6, 2012, “Disrespecting the U.S. Constitution the PMF Way,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/disrespecting-the-us-constitution_b_1860071.html.
· Huffington Post, September 5, 2012, “Privatization and Patriotism: Defining the Boundary,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/privatization-and-patriotism_b_1853187.html.
· Huffington Post, September 4, 2012, “Burn, Baby, Burn,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/burn-baby-burn_b_1844808.html.
· International Relations and Security Network (ISN), August 28, 2012, “Negative Views of Civilian and Private Security Contractors,” http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Special-Feature/Detail?lng=en&id=152096&contextid774=152096&contextid775=152091&tabid=1453312506.
· Huffington Post, August 27, 2012, “The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: PMSC and the Arab Spring,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/ferengi-rules-of-acquisition_b_1830366.html.
· Huffington Post, August 23, 2012, “Maritime PSC: Not the Solution, But Part of the Solution,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/maritime-psc-not-the-solution_b_1812683.html.
· PMSCO/IISS, August 22, 2012, “Maritime PSC: Not the Solution, But Part of the Solution” http://iissonline.net/?p=2523.
· Huffington Post, August 22, 2012, “How May We Service You?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/how-may-we-service-you_b_1814311.html
· Huffington Post, August 16, 2012, “The Invisible Foreign Subcontractor,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-invisible-foreign-sub_b_1785420.html.
· Huffington Post, August 14, 2012, “Contractors and the US Military Empire,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractors-and-the-us-mi_b_1771333.html.
· Huffington Post, August 10, 2012, “They Don’t Make Contractor Crime Like They Used To,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/they-dont-make-contractor_b_1758620.html.
Huffington Post, August 8, 2012, “How to Get a Mule’s — I Mean Contractor’s – Attention,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-mule-contractor-attention_b_1735853.html.
· Huffington Post, August 2, 2012, “Servicing the State Department,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/servicing-the-state-dept_b_1729577.html.
· Huffington Post, July 30, 2012, “Undercounting Contractor Casualties in Iraq,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/undercounting-contractor-_b_1708464.html
·Huffington Post, July 25, 2012, “The Devil Is Always in the Details,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-devil-is-always-in-th_b_1700537.html.
·Huffington Post, July 24, 2012, “No Wonder It’s Classified: The Effectiveness of Intelligence Outsourcing?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/no-wonder-its-classified-_b_1696989.html.
·Huffington Post, July 14, 2012, “Contracting Oversight: A Long Way to Go,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contracting-oversight-a-l_b_1670078.html.
·Huffington Post, July 11, 2012, “What the U.S. Government Knew About Najlaa,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/what-the-us-government-kn_b_1665137.html.
·Huffington Post, July 11, 2012, “PMSC Not Ready for U.N. Prime Time,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmsc-not-ready-for-un-pri_b_1663856.html.
·Huffington Post, June 27, 2012, “Intelligence for the 99 Percent,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/intelligence-for-the-99-p_b_1626184.html.
· PMSCO/IISS, June 21, 2012, “An American Foreign Legion,” http://iissonline.net/?p=1625/Huffington Post, June 27, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/an-american-foreign-legio_b_1614136.html.
· Huffington Post, June 15, 2012, “Chapter 12 Redux ,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/chapter-12-redux_b_1600303.html.
· PMSC Observer, June 14, 2012, DynCorp and Justin Pope, http://iissonline.net/?p=1506.
· Asia Times, June 2, 2012, “Pentagon soft-pedals on China threat,” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NF02Ad04.html.
· Huffington Post, May 29, 2012, “The Rise of Private Maritime Security Companies,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-military-contractors_b_1548523.html.
· Somalia Report, “The Rise of Private Maritime Security Companies: Part One: A Look At The Use of Maritime Security Guards or PCASP, May 26, 2012, http://www.somaliareport.com/index.php/post/3380/The_Rise_of_Private_Maritime_Security_Companies.
· IPS, May 24, 2012, “The Globalisation of U.S. Special Operations Forces,” http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107906.
· Huffington Post, May 24, 2012, “The Price of Sacrifice,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-price-of-sacrifice_b_1541331.html.
· Huffington Post, May 21, 2012, “Milo Minderbinder in Afghanistan: Part 2,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/milo-minderbinder_b_1525432.html.
· Huffington Post, May 18, 2012, “Milo Minderbinder in Afghanistan: Part 1,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/milo-minderbinder-in-afgh_b_1525347.html.
· Huffington Post, May 15, 2012, “Maybe This Is Why the PMSC Industry Is Supposedly Cost-Effective ,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/maybe-this-is-why-the-pms_b_1513646.html.
· Huffington Post, May 11, 2012, “DynCorp Does Due Diligence,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dyncorp-does-due-diligence_b_1507601.html?ref=tw.
· Huffington Post, May 10, 2012, “Hotel Contingency Operation: Money Can Check in but It Can Never Leave,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/hotel-contingency-operati_b_1504888.html.
· Huffington Post, May 8, 2012, “Different Ethical Strokes for Different PSC Folks,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/different-ethical-strokes_b_1498262.html.
· Huffington Post, May 3, 2012, “The Code Is More What You’d Call ‘Guidelines’,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-code-is-more-what-you-call-guidelines_b_1472937.html.
· Huffington Post, May 3, 2012, “A Morally Reprehensible Problem,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-morally-reprehensible-p_b_1472093.html.
· Huffington Post, April 30, 2012, “SIGIR Speaks,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/sigir-speaks_b_1463451.html.
· Huffington Post, April 29, 2012, “Chapter Twelve,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/chapter-twelve_b_1463040.html.
· Asia Times, April 27, 2012, “The China pivot and the US ‘siege’ strategy,” http://atimes.com/atimes/China/ND27Ad01.html.
· Huffington Post, April 26, 2012, “Data at Last, Data at Last: Thank God Almighty, Data at Last (Sort of) ,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/data-at-last-data-at-last_b_1452941.html.
· Huffington Post, April 21, 2012, “We’re Not Mercenaries. Oh, Dear,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/were-not-mercenaries_b_1442953.html
· Huffington Post, April 18, 2012, “PSC = Putin [Authorized] Security Contractor,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/psc-putin-authorized-secu_b_1430253.html.
· Huffington Post, April 16, 2012, “Nothing to see here… Move along… Move along,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/nothing-to-see-here-move-_b_1427454.html.
· Huffington Post, April 12, 2012, “Soldier or Contractor? It Doesn’t Matter; in the End Both Still Get Screwed,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-job-outsourcing_b_1422102.html.
· Huffington Post, April 11, 2012, “A Triple Play on Improving Oversight for Better Contracting,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contractors-oversight_b_1416050.html.
· Huffington Post, April 9, 2012, “Thunderstruck!: The Blackwater Videos,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/blackwater_b_1404701.html.
· Huffington Post, April 4, 2012, “A COR! A COR! My Afghan Kingdom for a COR!,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-cor-a-cor-my-afghan-kin_b_1400737.html.
· Huffington Post, April 3, 2012, “What Would Sherlock Say?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/what-would-sherlock-say_b_1398590.html.
· Huffington Post, April 2, 2012, “Some Things Are Just Unacceptable,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/some-things-are-just-unac_b_1395628.html.
· Huffington Post, March 30, 2012, “But That Is Another Story,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/but-that-is-another-story_b_1390096.html.
· Huffington Post, March 26, 2012, “A Covert Mystery, Wrapped in Classification, Inside a Contractual Black Hole,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/intelligence-private-contractors_b_1374304.html.
· Huffington Post, March 20, 2012, “PSC = Privateering Security Contractor,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/psc-privateering-security_b_1354991.html.
· Huffington Post, March 15, 2012, “ What’s in a Name? That Which We Call a Roseate PMSC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/whats-in-a-name-that-whic_b_1346492.html.
· Huffington Post, March 8, 2012, “Take My Koch Brothers – Please,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/take-my-koch-brothersplea_b_1328981.html.
· Huffington Post, March 7, 2012, “I Have a Dream: An International Legal Treaty,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-military-contractors_b_1320049.html.
· Huffington Post, March 1, 2012, “The State Department Tells Us How They Really Felt: Part 3,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-state-department-tell_1_b_1308495.html.
· Huffington Post, February 28, 2012, “To Use or Not to Use PSMC: That is the Question,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/to-use-or-not-to-use-psmc_b_1300745.html.
· Huffington Post, February 23, 2012, “0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = DynCorp,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dyncorp-government-contracts_b_1295623.html.
· Huffington Post, February 22, 2012, “PSC = Private Security Counterterrorist,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/-psc-private-security-cou_b_1291919.html.
· Huffington Post, February 21, 2012, “The State Department Tells Us How They Really Felt: Part 2,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-state-department-tell_b_1285366.html.
· Huffington Post, February 17, 2012, “The State Department Tells Us How They Really Felt: Part 1,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/state-department-blackwater_b_1280847.html.
· Inter Press Service, February 13, 2012, “Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Easier Said Than Done,” http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106739.
· Huffington Post, February 13, 2012, “State or Non-state: Ay, There’s the Rub,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/state-or-nonstate-ay-ther_b_1272070.html.
· Huffington Post, February 10, 2012, “The DynCorp “See No Evil” Monkey,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-dyncorp-see-no-evil-m_b_1267479.html.
· Huffington Post, February 6, 2012, “SIGIR Reports: Hey, Anybody Know What Happened to the $2 Billion?”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/sigir-reports-hey-anybody_b_1253964.html
· Huffington Post, January 30, 2012, “PMC Sexual Violence: It’s Still a Problem,” January 30, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-sexual-violence-its-s_b_1240751.html.
· Asia Times, Jan. 31, 2012, “Iran well prepared for the worst,” http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA31Ak03.html
· Huffington Post, January 24, 2012, “Why PMSC Can’t Use Kant,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-military-contractors_b_1225182.html.
· Huffington Post, January 20, 2012, “Gun? Check. Radio? Check. Lawyer? Check!” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/gun-check-radio-check-law_b_1217129.html.
· Asia Times, Jan 19, 2012, “Little lift from end to Japanese arms ban,” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/NA19Dh01.html.
· Huffington Post, January 17, 2012, “Say What? You Talking About Me?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/iraq-contractors_b_1209606.html.
· Huffington Post, January 10, 2012, “FAR 49.402-4(b) to the Rescue,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/far-part-49_b_1177141.html.
· PMSC Observer, January 7, 2012 “FAR 49.402-4(b) to the Rescue,”
http://isenberg.securitycontracting.net/2012/01/far-49-402-4b-to-the-rescue.
· Huffington Post, January 3, 2012, “UN Use of PMSC? It’s a Reality, Not a Hypothetical,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/united-nations-military-contractors_b_1180272.html.
· Huffington Post, December 28, 2011, “When to Contract, Not How to Contract: That Is the Question,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/when-to-contract-not-how-_b_1172981.html.
· Huffington Post, December 27, 2011, “Why JAGs Won’t Be Prosecuting PMCs,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/why-jags-wont-be-prosecut_b_1169132.html.
· Huffington Post, December 25, 2011, “A Future of PMC Pushers?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-future-of-pmc-pushers_b_1169109.html.
· Huffington Post, December 18, 2011, “Pedagogic Military Contractors: Blackwater, the Academy and the ιδιωτικές στρατιωτικές ανάδοχος,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contractors-blackwater_b_1156080.html.
· Huffington Post, December 13, 2011, “Let’s All Do the SIGOCO,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/lets-all-do-the-sigoco_b_1144986.html.
· Huffington Post, December 9, 2011, “The Potential and Peril of PMC in Israel,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-potential-and-peril-o_b_1137574.html.
· Security Contracting Network, December 1, 2011, “Movement in the Maritime World,” http://www.homeland-security-jobs.net/2011/12/surveying-wide-world-of-security-jobs.html.
· Huffington Post, December 5, 2011, “Putting the [(P)op Culture] in PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/putting-the-pop-culture-i_b_1128606.html.
· Huffington Post, December 2, 2011, “Showing the Private Military Contracting Sector the Money, Redux,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contracting_b_1123328.html.
· Huffington Post, November 30, 2011, “PMC in U.N. Operations? It Depends,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contractors-united-nations_b_1117424.html.
· Huffington Post, November 28, 2011, “From PMC to CMSP: Thinking Strategically About Private Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/from-pmc-to-cmsp-thinking_b_1111798.html.
· Security Contracting Network, November 25, 2011, “Security Contracting Jobs? Try Looking From South America to SE Asia,” http://security-contracting-jobs-afghanistan.com/2011/11/25/security-contracting-jobs-try-looking-from-south-america-to-se-asia.
· Huffington Post, November 23, 2011, “Miles to Go,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-contracting-afghanistan_b_1108095.html.
· Huffington Post, November 18, 2011, “Now Will You Do Something?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/government-contracts-iraq-fraud_b_1100785.html.
· Security Contracting Network, November 18, 2011, “Libya: Gaddafi Out, Contractors In,” http://private-security-jobs.com/2011/11/18/libya-gaddafi-out-contractors-in.
· Security Contracting Network, November 16, 2011, “Why Ethics Matter,” http://www.corporate-security-jobs.net.
· Security Contracting Network, November 16, 2011, “Find Your Next Government Security Job on LinkedIn,” http://www.homeland-security-jobs.net/2011/11/find-your-next-government-security-job.html.
· Huffington Post, November 17, 2011,” Making the Relationship Work: PSC and the Military,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/making-the-relationship-psc_b_1096415.html.
· Huffington Post, November 11, 2011, “It’s Two Lanterns for the Maritime PSC Industry,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/its-two-lanterns-for-the-_b_1087551.html.
· Security Contracting Network, November 7, 2011, “Contracting in Afghanistan; Information Sources You Need,” http://security-contracting-jobs-afghanistan.com/afghanistan-contractor-blog.
· Huffington Post, November 7, 2011, “Are Government Contractors Exploiting Workers Overseas?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/are-government-contractor_b_1073248.html.
· Huffington Post, November 2, 2011, “Good Luck to the U.S. State Department: You’re Going to Need It,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/good-luck-to-the-us-state_b_1066576.html?ref=middle-east
· Huffington Post, October 20, 2011, “Bad Pennies and Louis Berger Group,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/bad-pennies-and-louis-berger_b_1020862.html.
· Huffington Post, October 19, 2011, “The Neoliberal Wars,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-neoliberal-wars_b_1016328.html.
 · PMSC Observer, October 9, 2011, “Contratistas Desaparecidos,” http://isenberg.securitycontracting.net/2011/10/contratistas-desaparecidos / Huffington Post, October 10, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contratistas-desaparecido_b_997398.html.
· Huffington Post, September 29, 2011, “Name Calling and Double Standards,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/us-military-contractors-cost_b_986389.html.
· Huffington Post, September 15, 2011, “The Cost-Savings Fantasy,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-costsavings-fantasy_b_962652.html.
· Huffington Post, September 13, 2011, “The Feminine Side of Private Military Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-feminine-side-of-priv_b_955851.html.
· PMSC Observer, September 2, 2011, “War and Private Contractors: Can’t Live With Them and Can’t Live Without Them,” http://isenberg.securitycontracting.net/2011/09/war-and-private-contractors-can%E2%80%99t-live-with-them-and-can%E2%80%99t-live-without-them /Huffington Post, September 2, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/war-and-private-contracto_b_944365.html.
· Huffington Post, August 25, 2011, “Every Day, In Every Way, Accountability Is Not Getting Better,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/every-day-in-every-way-ac_b_935843.html.
· Huffington Post, August 8, 2011, “You Want Chicken Pox with That?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/you-want-chicken-pox-with_b_920572.html.
· Huffington Post, August 1, 2011, “State to SIGIR: Take Your Oversight Questions and Shove Them,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/state-to-sigir-take-your-_b_914135.html
· Huffington Post, August 1, 2011, “Dear U.S. State Department: Less BNS and More PNS, Please,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dear-us-state-department-_b_914478.html.
· Huffington Post, July 28, 2011, “Trust But, Incompetently, Verify,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/trust-but-incompetently-v_b_912543.html.
· Huffington Post, July 5, 2011, “GIGO: The Perennial PMSC Unanswered Questions,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-contractors-iraq_b_890280.html.
· CorpWatch, June 27th, 2011, “Subcontracting Substandard Services: Military Contracts in Iraq Still Controversial,” http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15647.
· Huffington Post, June 24, 2011, “PMC und Drang in the Persian Gulf,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-und-drang-in-the-pers_b_883825.html.
· World Politics Review, June 14, 2011, “Security Contractors and U.S. Defense: Lessons Learned from Iraq and Afghanistan,” http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/9151/security-contractors-and-u-s-defense-lessons-learned-from-iraq-and-afghanistan
· Huffington Post, June 14, 2011, “At Last: Military Outsourcing We Can All Support,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/at-last-military-outsourc_b_876570.html.
· Project on Government Oversight, Jun 14, 2011, “The Najlaa Episode Revisited,” DAVID ISENBERG and NICK SCHWELLENBACH, http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/06/documents-reveal-details-of-alleged-labor-trafficking-by-kbr-subcontractor.html.
· Huffington Post, June 2, 2011, “Showing, or Is That Showering, the PMC Money,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/showing-or-is-that-shower_b_870114.html.
· Huffington Post, May 23, 2011, “Showing the Private Military Contracting Sector the Money,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/showing-the-pmsc-sector-t_b_864372.html
· Huffington Post, May 15, 2011, “Indispensable or Inappropriate?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-military-contractors_b_862198.html.
· Huffington Post, May 10, 2011, “The Uncounted Contractor Casualties,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-uncounted-contractor-_b_859206.html.
· Huffington Post, April 21, 2011, “It’s Private Sector vs. Private Sector in the Ultimate Maritime Smackdown,” tp://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/its-private-sector-vs-pri_b_851135.html.
· Huffington Post, April 14, 2011, “PSC and R2P in Libya,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/psc-and-r2p-in-libya_b_848973.html.
· Huffington Post, April 7, 2011, “Putting the Posse Comitatus, or Not, in PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/putting-the-posse-comitat_b_844792.html.
· PMSC Observer, February 8, 2011, “The PMSC-Government Odd Couple,” http://isenberg.securitycontracting.net/2011/02/the-pmsc-government-odd-couple.
· PMSC Observer, February 4, 2011, “PMSC After the Iraq Transition,” http://isenberg.securitycontracting.net/2011/02/pmsc-after-the-iraq-transition.
· PMSC Observer, February 3, 2011, ” How are PMC doing in Iraq?” http://isenberg.securitycontracting.net/2011/02/how-are-pmc-doing-in-iraq.
· Huffington Post, February 1, 2011, “Privatization: It’s Not Just for State Forces,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/privatization-its-not-jus_b_816970.html.
· Huffington Post, January 31, 2011, “CWC on PMC in Afghanistan,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/cwc-on-pmc-in-afghanistan_b_815476.html.
· Huffington Post, January 27, 2011, “PMSC and Trafficking: Room for Improvement,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmsc-and-trafficking-room_b_814970.html.
· Huffington Post, January 25, 2011, “PMSC Challenges in Kosovo,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmsc-challenges-in-kosovo_b_813826.html.
· Huffington Post, January 25, 2011, “What Would Ike Think of PMSC?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/what-would-ike-think-of-p_b_813450.html.
· Huffington Post, January 17, 2011, “PMC = Philippine Military Contractor,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-philippine-military-c_b_809766.html.
· Huffington Post, January 14, 2011, “Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 5,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/outsourcing-war-and-peace_1_b_808355.html.
· Huffington Post, January 12, 2011, “Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/outsourcing-war-and-peace_1_b_808355.html.
· Huffington Post, January 12, 2011, “Blackwater and the $78.5 Million Olly Olly Oxen Free Contract,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/blackwater-and-the-785-mi_b_807317.html.
· Huffington Post, January 10, 2011, “Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 3,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/outsourcing-war-and-peace_b_807091.html.
· Huffington Post, January 9, 2011, ” Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 2,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/outsourcing-war-and-peace_b_806422.html.
· Huffington Post, January 8, 2011, “Put Your Empirically Proven Data Where Your Mouth Is,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/put-your-empirically-prov_b_806289.html.
· Huffington Post, January 7, 2011, “Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 1,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/outsourcing-war-and-peace_b_805885.html.
· Huffington Post, January 6, 2011, “Killed Your Wife or Husband? That’s Between the PSC and You,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/killed-your-wife-or-husba_b_805615.html.
· Huffington Post, January 5, 2011, “PSCs at Sea: The Reasons They Really May be “All at Sea,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pscs-at-sea-the-reasons-t_b_805015.html.
· Huffington Post, January 4, 2011, “Armed Humanitarians: Part 3,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/armed-humanitarians-part_b_804515.html.
· Huffington Post, January 3, 2011, “The $10,000 Iraqi Civilian,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-10000-iraqi-civilian_b_803940.html.
· Huffington Post, December 31, 2010, “PMC: Past, Present, and Future,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-past-present-and-futu_b_803074.html.
· Huffington Post, December 29, 2010, “Tamimi 1, KBR 0,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/tamimi-1-kbr-0_b_802534.html.
· Huffington Post, December 28, 2010, “The PMSC Observer,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-pmsc-observer_b_802166.html.
· Huffington Post, December 27, 2010, “PD-62 and PSC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pd-62-and-psc_b_801811.html.
· Huffington Post, December 23, 2010, “PMSC vs. Pirates,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmsc-vs-pirates_b_801030.html.
· Huffington Post, December 21, 2010, “Can’t Anyone at DoD Do Oversight? Anyone at All?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/cant-anyone-at-dod-do-ove_b_800059.html.
· Huffington Post, December 20, 2010, “Jack Bauer Beats Blackwater,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/jack-bauer-beats-blackwat_b_799501.html.
· Huffington Post, December 19, 2010, “Take the King’s Shilling, Accept the King’s Regulation,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/take-the-kings-shilling-a_b_798901.html.
· Huffington Post, December 16, 2010, “The Three Fifths PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-three-fifths-pmc_b_798059.html.
· Huffington Post, December 14, 2010, “Let’s Call It PMCkeeping,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/lets-call-it-pmckeeping_b_796862.html.
· Huffington Post, December 13, 2010, “The Other Side of the Global PMC Industry,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-other-side-of-the-glo_b_796283.html.
· Huffington Post, December 12, 2010, “PMC to Pentagon, Just Trust Us,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-to-pentagon-just-trus_b_795594.html.
· Huffington Post, December 11, 2010, “One Small Step for Transparency, One Giant Step for the U.S. State Department,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/one-small-step-for-transp_b_795452.html.
· Huffington Post, December 9 2010, “Considering Counter-Piracy Protection? Here’s What to Ask Before You Hire,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/considering-counter-pirac_b_794797.html.
· Huffington Post, December 8, 2010, “Congratulations Congress for Speedily Working on This: It Only Took You Six Years,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/congratulations-congress_b_793851.html.
· Huffington Post, December 7, 2010, “Miles to Go Before the PMC Industry Rests,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/miles-to-go-before-the-pm_b_793055.html.
· Huffington Post, December 6, 2010, “It’s Déjà Vu for DynCorp All Over Again,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/its-dj-vu-for-dyncorp-all_b_792394.html.
· Huffington Post, December 5, 2010, ” When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Looks For a Taxpayer Bailout,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/when-the-going-gets-tough_b_792203.html.
· Huffington Post, December 1, 2010, “Armed Humanitarians: Part 2,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/armed-humanitarians-part_b_790826.html.
· Huffington Post, November 30, 2010, “When the U.S., U.K. and France All Do It,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/when-the-us-uk-and-france_b_790204.html.
· Huffington Post, November 28, 2010, “A Rose by any Other Name Would Smell Like a “New Humanitarian,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-rose-by-any-other-name_b_788980.html.
· Huffington Post, November 27, 2010, “PMSC: They’re Not Just for the United States,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmsc-theyre-not-just-for_b_788830.html.
· Huffington Post, November 24, 2010, “The Cost of Being the Best Supplied Troops,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-cost-of-being-the-bes_b_788385.html.
· Huffington Post, November 22, 2010, “Armed Humanitarians: Part 1,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/armed-humanitarians-part_b_787272.html.
· Huffington Post, November 20, 2010, “Focusing on The Untouchable Quasi-Military PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/focusing-on-the-untouchab_b_786459.html.
· Huffington Post, November 19, 2010, “The Ecstasy and Agony of SIGAR,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-ecstasy-and-agony-of_b_786149.html.
· Huffington Post, November 17, 2010, “Private Military Companies as Quasi-States,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-military-companie_b_785219.html.
· Huffington Post, November 15, 2010, “If the UCMJ Doesn’t Fit, You Must Acquit,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/if-the-ucmj-doesnt-fit-yo_b_783714.html.
· Huffington Post, November 13, 2010, “Exposing Troops to a Carcinogen Is Not Part of Supporting the Troops,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/exposing-troops-to-a-carc_b_783083.html.
· Huffington Post, November 11, 2010, “KBR to Contractors: Yours Is Not Question Why, Yours is But to Do or Die,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbr-to-contractors-yours_b_782294.html.
· Huffington Post, November 8, 2010, “PMC to Pirates: “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-to-pirates-youve-got_b_780308.html.
· Huffington Post, November 5, 2010, “The Louis Berger Group: It May Be a Crook But At Least Its Our Crook,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-louis-berger-group-it_b_779856.html.
· Huffington Post, November 4, 2010, “October 2010 SIGIR Quarterly Report,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/october-2010-sigir-quarte_b_779303.html.
· Huffington Post, November 3, 2010, “Changing The Rules With PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/changing-the-rules-with-p_b_778523.html.
· Huffington Post, November 2, 2010, “Ahem: About That Great Change to the UCMJ,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/ahem-about-that-great-cha_b_778024.html.
· Huffington Post, November201, 2010, “Holbrooke Knows Where Karzai Is Coming From,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/holbrooke-knows-where-kar_b_776941.html.
· Huffington Post, October 31, 2010, “We Don’t Need No Stinking Democracy,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/we-dont-need-no-stinking_b_776754.html.
· Huffington Post, October 30, 2010, “Admiral Bob’s Global Security: The Future of PSC?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/admiral-bobs-global-secur_b_776514.html.
· Huffington Post, October 29, 2010, “At Least They’re Not Doing Vodka Butt Shots Anymore,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/at-least-theyre-not-doing_b_776124.html.
· Huffington Post, October 26, 2010, “International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/international-code-of-con_b_774477.html.
· Huffington Post, October 25, 2010, “Sergio Leone on PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/sergio-leone-on-pmc_b_773855.html.
· Huffington Post, October 24, 2010, “Be Careful What You Ask For,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com//david-isenberg/be-careful-what-you-ask-f_b_773202.html.
· Huffington Post, October 22, 2010, “Qarmat Ali AND KBR, Redux,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/qarmat-ali-and-kbr-redux_b_772792.html.
· Huffington Post, October 21, 2010, “An Officer of the (KBR) Court,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/an-officer-of-the-kbr-cou_b_772220.html.
· Huffington Post, October 20, 2010, “Let’s Tell It Like It Is,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/lets-tell-it-like-it-is_b_770812.html.
· Huffington Post, October 18, 2010, “Let’s Have Reality Based Discussion on PSC Use,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/lets-have-reality-based-d_b_767362.html.
· Huffington Post, October 17, 2010, “The Road to Effective PMC Regulation is Pitted With Good Intentions,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-road-to-effective-pmc_b_765818.html.
· Huffington Post, October 15, 2010, “This Waste Really Hurts,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/this-waste-really-hurts_b_765111.html.
· Huffington Post, October 13, 2010, “Max Weber was Wrong,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/max-weber-was-wrong_b_761409.html.
· Huffington Post, October 11, 2010, “The Benefit of Using the UCMJ for Prosecuting PMC Crimes,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-benefit-of-using-the_b_758243.html.
· Huffington Post, October 9, 2010, “PMSC and the Quest for Perfect Information,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmsc-and-the-quest-for-pe_b_756711.html.
· Huffington Post, October 8, 2010, “The Liability of Using a PMC to do Foreign Police Training,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-liability-of-using-a_b_755216.html.
· Huffington Post, October 7, 2010, “A Hundred Billion Dollars Up in Smoke,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-hundred-billion-dollars_b_754269.html.
· Huffington Post, October 6, 2010, “Sloppy Language and Human Rights,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/sloppy-language-and-human_b_751992.html.
· Huffington Post, October 5, 2010, “The Uncounted Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-uncounted-contractors_b_751387.html.
· Huffington Post, October 3, 2010, “The Good and the Bad in Using PMC in the Iraq Drawdown,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-good-and-the-bad-in-u_b_748561.html.
· Huffington Post, October 1, 2010, “Taliban to PSC: How May We Serve You?,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/taliban-to-psc-how-may-we_b_747821.html.
· Huffington Post, September 30, 2010, “Putting the Contract in Private Security Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/putting-the-contract-in-p_b_746068.html.
· Huffington Post, September 29, 2010, “Different Strokes for Different PMC Users,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/different-strokes-for-dif_b_742873.html.
· Huffington Post, September 28, 2010, “Putting the Lawyers in Lawyers, Guns and Money,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/putting-the-lawyers-in-la_b_741287.html.
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· Huffington Post, September 26, 2010, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Oversee, Don’t Account,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dont-ask-dont-tell-dont-o_b_739582.html.
· Huffington Post, September 24, 2010, “The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-state-department-take_b_738277.html.
· Huffington Post, September 23, 2010, “PSCs on Drugs,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pscs-on-drugs_b_736590.html.
· Huffington Post, September 22, 2010, “Translating For Dollars,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/translating-for-dollars_b_735752.html.
· Huffington Post, September 21, 2010, “When Doing More With Less Is Not A Good Idea,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/when-doing-more-with-less_b_733366.html.
· Huffington Post, September 20, 2010, “It All Depends on What You Mean by Cost-Effective,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/it-all-depends-on-what-yo_b_731251.html.
· Huffington Post, September 16, 2010, “How Far They’ve Come, How Far They Have To Go
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· Huffington Post, September 15, 2010,” Is There Professionalism in PMC?,”
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· Huffington Post, September 14, 2010, “ABC J’accuse MEP: There is no there,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/abc-jaccuse-mep-there-is_b_716550.html.
· Huffington Post, September 12, 2010, “Earth to Pentagon: Follow the Freaking Money!,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/earth-to-pentagon-follow_b_713779.html.
· Huffington Post, September 10, 2010, “Spies and Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/spies-and-contractors_b_712362.html.
· Huffington Post, September 9, 2010, “Strike Two on “Just Following Orders” Defense,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/strike-two-on-just-follow_b_711095.html.
· Huffington Post, September 6, 2010, “What If?: The Battle That Did Not Have to Happen,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/what-if-the-battle-that-d_b_706836.html
· Huffington Post, August 31, 2010, “Veterans 1, KBR 0,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/veterans-1-kbr-0_b_701395.html.
· Huffington Post, August 31, 2010, “William Kristol: Dulce Bellum Inexpertis,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/william-kristol-dulce-bel_b_700027.html.
· Huffington Post, August 29, 2010, “Taking the Private out of PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/taking-the-private-out-of_b_698554.html.
· Huffington Post, August 26, 2010, “Are IPOA, BAPSC and PSCAI Complicit or Just Irrelevant?,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/are-ipoa-bapsc-and-pscai_b_696044.html.
· Huffington Post, August 25, 2010, “GAO PSC Interview Transcripts Online,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/gao-psc-interview-transcr_b_694991.html.
· Huffington Post, August 25, 2010, “Hardly an Unalloyed Virtue: PMSC in Afghanistan,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/hardly-an-unalloyed-virtu_b_694888.html.
· Huffington Post, August 23, 2010, ” Thinking Outside the Nationalist Box PMC and International Humanitarian Law,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/thinking-outside-the-nati_b_691826.html.
· Huffington Post, August 22, 2010, “The Chimerical Cost Savings of Outsourcing,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-chimerical-cost-savin_b_690673.html.
· Huffington Post, August 19, 2010, “MPRI Couldn’t Read Minds: Let’s Sue Them,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/mpri-couldnt-read-minds-l_b_688000.html.
· Asia Times, August 19, 2010, “China threat: Now you see it, now you don’t,” http://atimes.com/atimes/China/LH19Ad01.html.
· Huffington Post, August 17, 2010, “Making a PSC Profit,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/making-a-psc-profit_b_685630.html.
· Huffington Post, August 16, 2010, “Cost vs. Oversight: There’s The Rub,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/cost-vs-oversight-theres_b_683132.html.
· Huffington Post, August 15, 2010, “Riding Herd on Cowboys in the Middle East,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/riding-herd-on-cowboys-in_b_682616.html.
· Huffington Post, August 10, 2010, “Burying Your Mistakes: PMC and Arlington National Cemetery,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/burying-your-mistakes-pmc_b_677161.html.
· Huffington Post, August 9, 2010, “Who’s Minding the Subcontractors?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/whos-minding-the-subcontr_b_676433.html.
· Huffington Post, August 4, 2010, ” PMC and Wikileaks,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-and-wikileaks_b_671186.html.
· Huffington Post, August 3, 2010, “Washington Rules and PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/washington-rules-and-pmc_b_669442.html.
·Asia Times, August 3, 2010, “US spying spawns a dystopian epidemic,”
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· Huffington Post, July 31, 2010, “The Latest on Contractors From SIGIR,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-latest-on-contractors_b_666152.html.
· Huffington Post, July 30, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 23: PSC, What’s That? A U.S. Military Perspective,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_665751.html.
· Huffington Post, July 28, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 22: A Convoy Was Attacked? Really, You Don’t Say,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_662275.html.
· Huffington Post, July 27, 2010, “When Just Following Orders is Good Enough,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/when-just-following-order_b_661325.html.
· Huffington Post, July 27, 2010, “Speaking Hypothetically: What to Do When a PMC Tortures,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/speaking-hypothetically-w_b_661160.html.
· Huffington Post, July 27, 2010, “The State Department Looks for Bliss,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-state-department-look_b_661040.html.
· Huffington Post, July 26, 2010, ” You Have 20 Days to Get Out of Town,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/you-have-20-days-to-get-o_b_659214.html.
· Huffington Post, July 26, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 21: We Do Not Work For the U.S. Military,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_658981.html.
· Huffington Post, July 25, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 20: When PSC Cause “Mission Creep,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_658577.html.
· Huffington Post, July 23, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 19: When PSCs Hurt U.S. Troops,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_657200.html.
· Huffington Post, July 22, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 18: IPOA Defends PSC Against Memo 17,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_656330.html.
· Huffington Post, July 21, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 17: Use of PSC is Cost Prohibitive,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_654848.html.
· Huffington Post, July 19, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 16: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_651358.html.
· Huffington Post, July 17, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 15: Coordination is Easier Said Than Done,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_650164.html.
· Huffington Post, July 16, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 14: When PSCs and Soldiers Throwdown,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_649079.html.
· Huffington Post, July 15, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 13: Houston, We’ve Had A Problem,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_647539.html.
· Huffington Post, July 14, 2010, “Who Are You Calling Objectionable?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/who-are-you-calling-objec_b_645561.html.
· Huffington Post, July 13, 2010, “Out of Sight Should Not Mean Out of Mind,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/out-of-sight-should-not-m_b_644146.html,
· Huffington Post, July 12, 2010, “Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Where are we going?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-security-contract_b_643169.html.
· Huffington Post, July 11, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 12: Can’t We All Just Coordinate,”
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· Huffington Post, July 10, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 11: Back in The Iraqi PMC Gold Rush Days,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_641953.html.
· Huffington Post, July 9, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 10: Blackwater Would Have Cooperated if Only the Other PSCs Had Blackberries,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_640539.html.
· Huffington Post, July 8, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 9: Tracking the Unknown Unknowns,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_639378.html.
· Huffington Post, July 6, 2010, “Inherent or Non-Inherent: That is the Question,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/inherent-or-non-inherent_b_636953.html.
· Huffington Post, July 5, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 8: WANTED: Village Idiots Guide for PSC/Military Relationships,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_635660.html.
· Huffington Post, July 4, 2010, “Just Another Day in Helping Make the U.S. Military the Best Supplied in Human History,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/just-another-day-in-helpi_b_635138.html.
· Huffington Post, July 4, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 7: It All Depends on What One Means by “May,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_635114.html.
· Huffington Post, July 4, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 6: Coordinating PSC Activities in Iraq “, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_635064.html.
· Huffington Post, July 3, 2010, “KBR Gives Uncle Sam the One Finger Salute,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbr-gives-uncle-sam-the-o_b_634818.html
· Huffington Post, July 1, 2010, “From Little ACODs Mighty Scandals Grow,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/from-little-acods-mighty_b_632386.html.
· Huffington Post, June 30, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts, Part 5: Could the Military Trust the PSCs?,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_631512.html.
· Huffington Post, June 30, 2010, “The Perils of LOGCAP Job Seeking,”
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· Huffington Post, June 29, 2010, “The Three Imperative C’s: Comprehending Contracting Culture,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-three-imperative-cs-c_b_630187.html.
· Huffington Post, June 29, 2010, “Shaping Up Blackwater’s Act,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/shaping-up-blackwaters-ac_b_630140.html.
· Huffington Post, June 28, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts: Part 4, A British PSC Viewpoint,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_628699.html.
· Huffington Post, June 28, 2010, “Keep on Trucking,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/keep-on-trucking_b_628102.html.
· Huffington Post, June 17, 2010, “It All Depends on What You Mean by Regulation,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/it-all-depends-on-what-yo_b_616539.html.
· Huffington Post, June 16, 2010, “RAND Opines on “Hired Guns,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/rand-opines-on-hired-guns_b_614263.html.
· Huffington Post, June 16, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts: Part 3, Aegis Defence Interview,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_614143.html.
· Asia Times, June 15, 2010, “Kicking it with karate’s grandmasters,” http://atimes.com/atimes/Japan/LF15Dh01.html.
· Huffington Post, June 14, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts: Part 2, Second Blackwater Interview,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_611033.html.
· Huffington Post, June 12, 2010, “The GAO Transcripts: Part 1, Blackwater,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-gao-transcripts-part_b_610127.html.
· Huffington Post, June 11, 2010, “KBR: Private Military Cancer (PMC) Provider? Part II,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbr-private-military-canc_b_609247.html.
· Huffington Post, June 10, 2010, “The Constitutionally Compatible PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-constitutionally-comp_b_608180.html.
· Huffington Post, June 9, 2010, “Nothing is Too Good For Our Boys. Yeah, Right!,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/nothing-is-too-good-for-o_b_607014.html.
· Huffington Post, June 9, 2010, “A Blackwater by Any Other Name is Still A Blackwater,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/a-blackwater-by-any-other_b_606972.html.
· Huffington Post, June 8, 2010, “CNAS on Contracting,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/cnas-on-contracting_b_605136.html.
· Huffington Post, June 7, 2010, “KBR Is Still Asking For It,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbr-is-still-asking-for-i_b_602993.html.
· Huffington Post, June 3, 2010, “KBR’s Unauthorized Deaths,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbrs-unauthorized-deaths_b_599489.html.
· Huffington Post, June 2, 2010, “Are Private Contractors the Vulnerable Underbelly of the Intelligence Community,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/are-private-contractors-t_b_597778.html.
· Huffington Post, June 1, 2010, “How Shall We Understand PMC? Let Us Count the Transaction Cost Dynamic Ways,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/how-shall-we-understand-p_b_595930.html.
· Huffington Post, May 31, 2010, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/quis-custodiet-ipsos-cust_b_595304.html.
· Huffington Post, May 30, 2010, “There is More Than One Way to Use a Maritime PSC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/there-is-more-than-one-wa_b_594777.html.
· Huffington Post, May 28, 2010, “Aegis’ Charm Offensive in Iraq,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/aegis-charm-offensive-in_b_593106.html.
· Huffington Post, May 27, 2010, “Pirates, PSC, and Lawyers,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pirates-psc-and-lawyers_b_592036.html.
· Huffington Post, May 25, 2010, “Contracting Oversight: Never Have So Few Surrendered So Much,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contracting-oversight-nev_b_589753.html.
· Huffington Post, May 25, 2010, “The Unknown Casualties,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-unknown-casualties_b_588927.html.
· Huffington Post, May 24, 2010, “From BP to BPMC: What We Should Learn from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster About PMSC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/from-bp-to-bpmc-what-we-s_b_586694.html.
· Huffington Post, May 21, 2010, “The Olympics Will Be Protected by Aegis: Ay, There’s the Rub” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-olympics-will-be-prot_b_585752.html.
· Huffington Post, May 20, 2010, “Amnesty International and Blackwater: Two Peas in a Pod?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/amnesty-international-and_b_583904.html.
· Huffington Post, May 18, 2010, “Silence May be Golden, But It is Also Confusing,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/silence-may-be-golden-but_b_580678.html.
· Huffington Post, May 14, 2010, “Best of Luck to You, Ms. Burke,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/best-of-luck-to-you-ms-bu_b_576268.html.
· Huffington Post, May 13, 2010, “All For Tier and Tier For All,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/all-for-tier-and-tier-for_b_574805.html.
· Huffington Post, May 12, 2010, “How About Those Other Private Military Contractors?,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/how-about-those-other-pri_b_573470.html.
Huffington Post, May 11, 2010, ” Keep the Peacekeepers, but Outsource the Support Functions,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/keep-the-peacekeepers-but_b_572433.html.
· Huffington Post, May 10, 2010, ” The Podesta Group: Playing Both PMC Sides,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-podesta-group-playing_b_570912.html.
· Huffington Post, May 9, 2010, “The Al Capone Solution for the Blackwater Problem,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-al-capone-solution-fo_b_569305.html.
· Huffington Post, May 6, 2010, “Fitting a Square PMC Into a Round IHL” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/fitting-a-square-pmc-into_b_567108.html.
· Huffington Post, May 4, 2010, “Shifting the Blame, Just Plain Whining, or Both?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/shifting-the-blame-just-p_b_562522.html.
· Huffington Post, May 2, 2010, “Narrowing PMC Legal Ambiguity,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/narrowing-pmc-legal-ambig_b_560183.html.
· Huffington Post, April 30, 2010, “SIGIR’s Latest on PMCs,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/sigirs-latest-on-pmcs_b_558446.html.
· Huffington Post, April 29, 2010, “The Government Made Me Do It?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-government-made-me-do_b_557054.html.
· Huffington Post, April 27, 2010, “”DynCorp Does Good,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dyncorp-does-good_b_553883.html.
· Huffington Post, April 26, 2010, “State Beats Pentagon, Unfortunately,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/state-beats-pentagon-unfo_b_552928.html.
· Huffington Post, April 24, 2010, “OMB to GAO: How We Doing?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/omb-to-gao-how-we-doing_b_550780.html.
· Huffington Post, April 23, 2010, “Why Can’t Contractors Talk About What They Do?,”
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· Huffington Post, April 22, 2010, “Sometimes It Helps to Read the Fine Print,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/sometimes-it-helps-to-rea_b_547278.html.
· Huffington Post, April 21, 2010, “PMC and Sex Crimes,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/pmc-and-sex-crimes_b_546169.html.
· Huffington Post, April 20, 2010, “DynCorp Begs to Differ,”
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· Huffington Post, April 19, 2010, “Civil Discourse and Private Military Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/civil-discourse-and-priva_b_543693.html.
· Huffington Post, April 18, 2010, “The Contractors that Couldn’t Shoot Straight?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-contractors-that-coul_b_542306.html.
· Huffington Post, April 15, 2010, “To Be, or Not to Be, Inherent: That is the Question,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/to-be-or-not-to-be-inhere_b_539933.html.
· Huffington Post, April 14, 2010, “April Fools Award Fees and the Army Corps of Engineers,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/april-fools-award-fees-an_b_538338.html.
· Huffington Post, April 14, 2010, “DCMA and Contractor Oversight,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dcma-and-contractor-overs_b_537237.html.
· Huffington Post, April 13, 2010, “Contractors Overseeing Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractors-overseeing-co_b_535931.html.
· Huffington Post, April 1, 2010, “KBR: Private Military Cancer (PMC) Provider?”
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· Huffington Post, April 1, 2010, “Idle Contractor Hands,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/idle-contractor-hands_b_521621.html.
· Huffington Post, March 30, 2010, “Playing by Different Rules: The Military and Private Security Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/playing-by-different-rule_b_520130.html.
· Huffington Post, March 30, 2010, “It Came From Annex W,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/it-came-from-annex-w_b_519494.html.
· Huffington Post, March 29, 2010, “The Unknown Contractor,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-unknown-contractor_b_517885.html.
· Huffington Post, March 26, 2010, “It’s PMC Déjà vu All Over Again,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/its-pmc-dj-vu-all-over-ag_b_514849.html.
· Huffington Post, March 25, 2010, “Epistemology and PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/epistemology-and-pmc_b_513226.html.
· Huffington Post, March 22, 2010, “AFRICA: The Mother of All PMC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/africa-the-mother-of-all_b_509111.html.
· Huffington Post, March 21, 2010, “To Do the Impossible Job,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/to-do-the-impossible-job_b_507553.html.
· Huffington Post, March 19, 2010, “The Presumed and Possible PMC Professionalism,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-presumed-and-possible_b_506364.html.
· Huffington Post, March 17, 2010, “Law and the Private Armies You Can Afford,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/law-and-the-private-armie_b_503075.html.
· Huffington Post, March 15, 2010, “Why You Should Never Drink and Guard,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/why-you-should-never-drin_b_499464.html
· Huffington Post, March 14, 2010, “The Curious Case of the Unnoticed Congressional Hearing,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-curious-case-of-the-u_b_498471.html.
· Huffington Post, March 12, 2010, “When a Private Contractor Just Isn’t Enough,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/when-a-private-contractor_b_496664.html.
· Huffington Post, March 11, 2010, “Private Military Contractors as Buzz Lightyear: To Afghanistan and Beyond,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-military-contract_b_494834.html.
· Huffington Post, March 9, 2010, “The Politic on PMSC,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-politic-on-pmcs_b_492565.html.
· Huffington Post, March 5, 2010, “KBR: Failing Upwards,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbr-failing-upwards_b_486769.html.
· Huffington Post, March 4, 2010, “Would Blackwater Lie?,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/would-blackwater-lie_b_486247.html.
· Huffington Post, March 4, 2010, “At long last IPOA is Right,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/at-long-last-ipoa-is-righ_b_486015.html.
· Huffington Post, March 3, 2010, “Justice is Inept as Well as Blind,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/justice-is-inept-as-well_b_484102.html.
· Huffington Post, March 2, 2010, “The Get Out of Jail and Stay on Contract Free Card,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-get-out-of-jail-and-s_b_482581.html.
· Huffington Post, March 1, 2010, “Earth to Government: Less CORS Equal Higher Risk of Fraud,”
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/earth-to-government-less_b_481056.html.
· Huffington Post, February 26, 2010, “Mental Health and Private Military Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/mental-health-and-private_b_478533.html.
· Huffington Post, February 25, 2010, “DynCorp and the Afghan Police,”    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/dyncorp-and-the-afghan-po_b_477294.html
· Huffington Post, February 24, 2010, “Making the Army an Offer It Can’t Refuse,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/making-the-army-an-offer_b_474981.html
· Huffington Post, February 22, 2010, “Improving the Government-Contractor Relationship,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/improving-the-government_b_470998.html.
· Huffington Post, February 21, 2010, “Supporting the Troops: Making Them Sick,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/supporting-the-troops-mak_b_470730.html.
· Huffington Post, February 20, 2010, “Accountability Dutch Style,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/accountability-dutch-styl_b_470168.html.
· Huffington Post, February 17, 2010, “Military Ethics and Private Military Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/military-ethics-and-priva_b_466291.html
· Asia Times, Feb. 18, 2010, “Contractors stirred by sexy tales,” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LB18Ak02.html.
· Huffington Post, February 15, 2010, “The Disappearing Dichotomy,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-disappearing-dichotom_b_463330.html.
· Huffington Post, February 8, 2010, “Blackwater Uses the F(raud) Word,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/blackwater-uses-the-fraud_b_461639.html.
· Huffington Post, February 8, 2010, “KBR is Asking for It,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/kbr-is-asking-for-it_b_454527.html.
· Huffington Post, February 5, 2010, “How We Doing? Contractors and Their Lobbyists,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/how-we-doing-contractors_b_451179.html.
· Huffington Post, February 2, 2010, “Contractors and the Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractors-and-the-civil_b_446298.html.
· Huffington Post, February 1, 2010, “The QDR and Private Military Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-qdr-and-private-milit_b_444706.html.
· Huffington Post, January 31, 2010, “New SIGIR Detail on Private Contractors in Iraq,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/new-sigir-detail-on-priva_b_437696.html.
· Huffington Post, January 27, 2010, “Offshore Means Never Having to Pay Payroll Taxes,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/offshore-means-never-havi_b_438834.html.
· Huffington Post, January 26, 2010, “About That Non-Discretionary Spending,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/about-that-non-discretion_b_436832.html.
· Huffington Post, January 24, 2010, “There They Go Again: DynCorp in Iraq,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/there-they-go-again-dynco_b_434688.html.
· Huffington Post, January 19, 2010, “Contractor Legal Immunity and the “Political Questions” Doctrine,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractor-legal-immunity_b_428790.html.
· Huffington Post, January 15, 2010, “Private Contractors to the Rescue?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/private-contractors-to-th_b_425600.html.
· Huffington Post, Jan. 12, 2010, “Screwing Over Private Contractors,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/screwing-over-private-con_b_420877.html.
· Huffington Post, Jan. 11, 2010 “More Bad News for Blackwater,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/more-bad-news-for-blackwa_b_418533.html.
· Huffington Post, Jan. 6, 2010 “The right way to use private contractors to fight pirates,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-right-way-to-use-priv_b_414169.html.
· Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 47, No. 1, January 2010, [“A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2008] Book Note, p. 101, http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/vol47/issue1.
· Huffington Post, Dec. 31, 2009, “Good News for Blackwater Is Bad News for Industry,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/good-news-for-blackwater_b_408753.html.
· Huffington Post, Dec. 30, 2009, “What We Don’t Know on Contractors and Why We Don’t Know It,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/what-we-dont-know-on-cont_b_407777.html.
· Huffington Post, Dec. 28, 2009, “Money isn’t everything; it’s the only thing,,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/money-isnt-everything-its_b_405089.html.
· Huffington Post, Dec. 26, 2009, “Yes, We’re Talking About You, KBR,” says Congress, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/yes-were-talking-about-yo_b_403996.html.
· Huffington Post, Dec. 24, 2009, “The $44,000 cost saving?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/the-44000-cost-saving_b_403242.html.
· Huffington Post, Dec. 23, 2009, “Contractors and Cost Effectiveness,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractors-and-cost-effe_b_402075.html.
· Huffington Post, Contractors ‘R U.S., Dec. 23, 2009,  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/contractors-r-us_b_402019.html.
· Missing in Action, Review of One Nation Under Contract by Allison Stanger, Asia Times, Dec. 19, 2009, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KL19Ak01.html.
· The wheels of investigation turn slowly at IPOA, Private Military Herald, Dec. 8, 2009, http://www.privatemilitaryherald.com/2009/12/08/the-wheels-of-investigation-turn-slowly-at-ipoa/
· Private Military Contractors and U.S. Grand Strategy, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, PRIO Report 1/2009, October 2009, http://www.prio.no/sptrans/-1720057691/Isenberg%20Private%20Military%20Contractors%20PRIO%20Report%201-2009.pdf.
· Review of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, New York: Penguin. Singer, Peter W., 2009 in Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 36, no. 6, November 2009-11-24, p.859-860.
· Sex and security in Afghanistan, Asia Times, October 6, 2009.
· Commentary on the Commission on Wartime Contracting Hearings (Part 3), Private Military Herald, October 5, 2009.
· Commentary on the Commission on Wartime Contracting Hearings (Part 2), Private Military Herald, Sep. 27. 2009.
· Commentary on the Commission on Wartime Contracting Hearings (Part 1), Private Military Herald, Sep. 25. 2009.
· Analysis Of: JAMES GORDON V. ARMORGROUP NORTH AMERICA, Private Military Herald, Sep. 20. 2009, http://www.privatemilitaryherald.com/category/analysis/ and http://www.privatemilitaryherald.com/documents/Isenberg_Analysis_of_Gordon_vs_AGNA.pdf.
“UNITED STATES: DOD reforms will not hurt defence sector,” Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, July 10, 2009.
[Book Note] on “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” Scott McClellan, 2008, in Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 46, No. 4, July 2009, p. 603-4.
“Private Contractors Still Lack Adequate Oversight,” Defense News, June 29 2009,
http://defensenews.com/story.php?i=4160687&c=FEA&s=COM.
· BOOK REVIEW – The coming robot wars (Wired for War by P W Singer), Asia Times, June 13, 2009, http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KF13Df01.html.
· The good, and bad, news on contractors, Asia Times, Apr 29, 2009, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KD29Ak03.html.
· Dogs of War: Lions and contractors and robots. Oh my!, Dogs of War: Dogs of War: Contractors with no names, UPI, April 10, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/04/10/Dogs-of-War-Lions-and-contractors-and-robots-Oh-my/UPI-53741239368400.
· Dogs of War: Let loose the legal beagles of war, Dogs of War: Immunity, what immunity?,
UPI, April 3, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/04/03/Dogs_of_War_Let_loose_the_legal_beagles_of_war/UPI-87331238763600/
· US cries Chinese wolf, Asia Times, Mar 31, 2009, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KC31Ad01.html
· Dogs of War: The good, the bad and the contractor, Dogs of War: Have Ph.D., will travel, March 27, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/03/27/Dogs_of_War_The_good_the_bad_and_the_contractor/UPI-57071238162194/print/
· Dogs of War: Theory is fine, action is better, Dogs of War: Put up or shut up, UPI, March 20, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/03/20/Dogs_of_War_Theory_is_fine_action_is_better/UPI-63971237554000.
· Dogs of War: Can’t we all just get along? Dogs of War: Blue on white, UPI, March 13, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/03/13/Dogs_of_War_Cant_we_all_just_get_along/UPI-47031236987847.
· Dogs of War: Contractors doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, UPI, March 6, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/03/06/Dogs_of_War_Contractors_doomed_to_repeat_the_mistakes_of_the_past/UPI-60121236380852/print.
· Dogs of War: Blue helmets and bottom lines, Dogs of War: Outsourcing peacekeeping, UPI, Feb. 27, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/02/27/Dogs_of_War_Blue_helmets_and_bottom_lines/UPI-23121235775226.
· Dogs of War: Mercenaries are in the eye of the beholder: Dogs of War: Now who is a mercenary?, UPI, Feb. 20, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/02/20/Dogs_of_War_Mercenaries_are_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder/UPI-43341235139979
· David Isenberg’s Speaker Notes, The Combat Operator, Feb. 16, 2009, http://combatoperator.com/blog/2009/02/16/david-isenbergs-speaker-notes/#more-1159.
· Dogs of War: Covering Contractors: Dogs of War: Media to contractors: Who are you guys?, UPI, Feb. 13, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/02/13/Dogs_of_War_Media_to_contractors_Who_are_you_guys/UPI-93011234571073.
· Dogs of War Private military contractors — mysterious No: Dogs of War: PMC Research 101, UPI, Feb, 6, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/02/06/Dogs_of_War_Private_military_contractors_–_mysterious_No/UPI-64431233950971/2.
· Email posted on The Combat Operator, Feb. 6, 2009, http://combatoperator.com/blog/2009/02/06/email-from-david-isenberg.
· Security peddlers eye Afghan windfall, future, Asia Times, Feb. 4, 2009, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KB04Df01.html.
· Dogs of War: That is the question: Contractors fulfilling a contract — imagine that, future, UPI, Jan, 30, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/01/30/Dogs_of_War_Contractors_fulfilling_a_contract_–_imagine_that/UPI-67581233358019.
· Dogs of War: Slippery slope: Contractors impact on military culture, future, UPI, Jan. 23, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/01/23/Contractors_impact_on_military_culture/UPI-16841232747165.
· Dogs of War: Reagan was Right: Codes of conduct — trust but verify, future, UPI, Jan. 16, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/01/16/Dogs_of_War_Codes_of_conduct_–_trust_but_verify/UPI-94401232117745.
· Dogs of War: The future of contractor accountability — immunity or impunity, future, UPI, Jan. 12, 2009, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/01/12/Dogs_of_War_The_future_of_contractor_accountability_–_immunity_or_impunity/UPI-88801231774390/print.
· Dogs of War: The culture of private security contractors, future, UPI, Jan 2, 2009
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/01/03/Dogs_of_War_The_culture_of_private_security_contractors/UPI-43651230987600.
· Dogs of War: Bleeding heart contractors, future, UPI, Dec. 26, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/12/26/Dogs_of_War_Bleeding_heart_contractors/UPI-86361230296400/print.
· Dogs of War: Ghosts of contractors past, present and future, UPI, December 19, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/12/19/Dogs_of_War_Ghosts_of_contractors_past_present_and_future/UPI-97041229704618/print
· Dogs of War: Lessons of the Blackwater indictments, UPI, December 12, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/12/12/Dogs_of_War_Lessons_of_the_Blackwater_indictments/UPI-13231229120334/print/
· Dogs of War: Private Shill Contractors, UPI, Dec. 5, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/12/05/When_generals_speak_people_listen/UPI-66011228524323.
· INTERNATIONAL: Private firms may have anti-piracy role, Oxford Analytica, December 4, 2008, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081208.woxfordanalytica1208/BNStory/energy/home.
· Dogs of War: A contractor’s tale, UPI, Nov. 28, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/11/28/Contractors_past_present_and_future/UPI-27611227877200.
· [BOOK REVIEW, America’s Defense Meltdown edited by Winslow T Wheeler], Military reform 30 years on, Asia Times, Nov. 27, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JK27Ak02.html.
· A brave new world awaits, Asia Times, Nov. 26, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JK26Ak01.html.
· Dogs of War: The global stability industry, UPI, Nov. 21, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/11/21/The_unknown_and_unrecognized_contractors/UPI-71421227309260.
· Dogs of War: U.S. has paid $6 billion to 310 private security companies in Iraq, UPI, Nov. 14, 2008,
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/11/14/Dogs_of_War_US_has_paid_6_billion_to_310_private_security_companies_in_Iraq/UPI-84361226689234.
· Discussion participant, Changing The Culture Of Pentagon Contracting, A publication of the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative, New America Foundation, October 2008
· Dogs of War: Contractors and Obama, UPI, Nov. 7, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/11/07/Accountability_keeps_rolling_along/UPI-64531226098363/print.
· US urged to overhaul nuclear arsenal, Asia Times, Nov 5, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/JK05Dg01.html.
· US/IRAQ: SOFA deal may affect private contractors, Oxford Analytica, November 4, 2008, http://www.oxan.com/display.aspx?ItemID=DB146724.
· Dogs of War: Losing sleep over SOFA, UPI, Oct. 31, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/10/31/Private_military_contractors_fret_over_Iraqi-US_Status_of_Forces_Agreement/UPI-43971225496635.
· Dogs of War: Yaargh, here be contractors, UPI, Oct. 24, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/10/24/Dogs_of_War_Contractors_vs_contractors/UPI-76441224883521/#top.
· Dogs of War: When a contractor just isn’t good enough, UPI, Oct. 17, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/10/17/Dogs_of_War_When_a_contractor_just_isnt_good_enough/UPI-38301224276591/print/.
· Dogs of War: Busting the unaccountability myth, UPI, Oct. 10, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/10/10/Dogs_of_War_Busting_the_unaccountability_myth/UPI-37961223666832.
· United States Pressure on defense budget rises, Oxford Analytica, October 8, 2008
· The US military’s fallout shelter, Asia Times, October 8, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JJ08Ak03.html.
· Dogs of War: Will the last contractor to leave Iraq remember to please turn out the lights?, UPI,
Oct. 3, 2008,
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/10/03/Dogs_of_War_Will_the_last_contractor_to_leave_Iraq_remember_to_please_turn_out_the_lights/UPI-42221223055076/
· Dogs of War: William Walker — the American Idol of the 19th century, UPI, Sep. 29, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/09/29/Dogs_of_War_William_Walker_–_the_American_Idol_of_the_19th_century/UPI-38611222713658/
· New realities in the Strait of Hormuz, Asia Times, Sep 23, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JI23Ak01.html.
· Dogs of War: The well-ordered worldliness of WPPS, UPI, Sep. 19, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/09/19/The_well-ordered_worldliness_of_WPPS/UPI-64411221853811.
· Dogs of War: From mercenary to security contractor and back again, UPI, Sep.12, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/09/12/Dogs_of_War_From_mercenary_to_security_contractor_and_back_again/UPI-48411221245322/.
· Dogs of War: Micromanaging security contractors, UPI, Sep.5, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/09/05/Micromanaging_security_contractors/UPI-57691220641402/
· Dogs of War: Contractor oversight is Improving, UPI, Aug. 29, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/08/29/Contractor_oversight_is_Improving/UPI-17311220050031.
· US/AFGHANISTAN: Private contractors play stopgap role, Oxford Analytica, August 22, 2008, http://www.oxan.com/display.aspx?ItemID=DB145019
· Dogs of War: More contractors in Iraq, UPI, Aug. 22, 2008
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/08/22/CBO_finds_greater_reliance_than_thought_on_contractors_in_Iraq/UPI-73691219426485/
· Dogs of War: One-stop shopping at Blackwater, UPI, Aug. 18, 2008,
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/08/18/One-stop_shopping_at_Blackwater/UPI-69521219075604/
· Dogs of War: Blackwater to the rescue in Darfur? UPI, Aug. 8, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/08/08/Dogs_of_War_Blackwater_to_the_rescue_in_Darfur/UPI-26991218225853/.
· Dogs of War: Are PMCs POWs? UPI, Aug. 1, 2008,
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/08/01/Dogs_of_War_Are_PMCs_POWs/UPI-68951217630627/
· Dogs of War: Life without Blackwater? UPI, July 25, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/07/25/Dogs_of_War_Life_without_Blackwater/UPI-91141217020534.
· US keeps Taiwan at arm’s length, Asia Times, July 23, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JG23Ad01.html.
· Dogs of War: The con side of contractors, UPI, July 18, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/07/18/Dogs_of_War_The_con_side_of_contractors/UPI-14281216416531/
· A reality check on Iran, Asia Times, July 19, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG19Ak02.html
· Dogs of War: Immunity hype, UPI, July 11, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/07/11/Dogs_of_War_Immunity_hype/UPI-27371215806380/
· Dogs of War: The founding contractors, UPI, July 7, 2008,
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/07/07/Dogs_of_War_The_founding_contractors/UPI-92781215459116/
· Over-the-counter cloak and dagger, Asia Times, July 4, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG04Ak01.html.
· Dogs of War: A small step for contractors, UPI, June 27, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/27/Dogs_of_War_A_small_step_for_contractors/UPI-85451214600733/
· Firing blanks in Afghanistan, Asia Times, June 27, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF27Ak01.html
· Dogs of War: CACI — Some publicity is bad, UPI, June 20, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/20/Dogs_of_War_CACI_–_Some_publicity_is_bad/UPI-21041214005375/
· Attacking Iran: The last resort, Asia Times, June 18, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF19Ak02.html
· Dogs of War: Two little words, UPI, June 13, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/13/Dogs_of_War_Two_little_words/UPI-50001213396321
· Dogs of War: The Holy Grail, part four, UPI, June 6, 2008, http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/06/Dogs_of_War_The_Holy_Grail_part_four/UPI-96771212763232/
· Atomic Market: What Benazir knew, UPI, May 30, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/2008/05/30/atomic_market_what_benazir_knew/6088/
· Dogs of War: Back to Africa, UPI, May 30, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/05/30/dogs_of_war_back_to_africa/2298/
· United States: Pentagon contracting faces new scrutiny, Oxford Analytica Global Strategic Analysis, May 29, 2008.
· Dogs of War: Defense Base Act revisited, UPI, May 23, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/05/23/dogs_of_war_defense_base_act_revisited/8426.
· Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf — Take Two,” UPI, May 16, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/05/16/dogs_of_war_blackwater_najaf_–_take_two/8806.
· “A hard look at China’s soft power,” Asia Times, May 16, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JE16Ad02.html.
· Dogs of War: Inherently governmental? UPI, May 9, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/05/09/dogs_of_war_inherently_governmental/3162/
· Dogs of War: Insurance? What insurance? UPI, May 2, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/05/02/dogs_of_war_insurance_what_insurance/1546/
· The Return of Limited Nuclear War? CounterPunch, May 2, 2008, http://www.counterpunch.org/isenberg05022008.html.
· Dogs of War: Cost-effective: Myth or fact? UPI, April 25, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/04/25/dogs_of_war_cost-effective_myth_or_fact/8897/
· “Recruiting the bottom of the barrel,” Asia Times, April 26, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JD26Ak01.html
· Spinning Saddam’s Linkages, CounterPunch, April 22, 2008, http://www.counterpunch.org/isenberg04222008.html
· Dogs of War: No justice on contractor rape, UPI, April 18, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/04/18/dogs_of_war_no_justice_on_contractor_rape/7634/
· Dogs of War: Military justice and PMCs, UPI, April 11, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/04/11/dogs_of_war_military_justice_and_pmcs/2717/
· Dogs of War: No gravy train for PMC grunts, UPI, March 28, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/03/28/dogs_of_war_no_gravy_train_for_pmc_grunts/4356/print_view.
· Dogs of War: Life imitating art, UPI, March 21, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/03/21/dogs_of_war_life_imitating_art/3444/print_view.
· Dogs of War: Employees, what employees?, UPI, March 14, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/03/14/dogs_of_war_employees_what_employees/3792.
· Dogs of War: Round laws, square holes, UPI, March 7 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/03/07/dogs_of_war_round_laws_square_holes/2633/print_view.
· “Dogs of War: No stinkin’ oversight needed,” UPI, February 29, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/2008/02/29/dogs_of_war_no_stinkin_oversight_needed/2656/print_view.
· Dogs of War: Modest proposals for reform, UPI, February 22, 2008,
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/2008/02/22/dogs_of_war_modest_proposals_for_reform/2595/print_view.
· Arms sales pay few US policy dividends, Oxford Analytica, Feb 18, 2008.
· Dogs of War: The pay gap myth, UPI, February 15, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/02/15/dogs_of_war_the_pay_gap_myth/3554.

· “War by the rules,” Asia Times, Feb 12, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JB12Ak01.html.
· Dogs of War: The importance of oversight, UPI, February 1, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/2008/02/01/dogs_of_war_the_importance_of_oversight/2828/print_view/.
· “Dogs of War: Here to stay, UPI, January 25, 2008, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/01/25/dogs_of_war_here_to_stay/5188.
· “A fresh look at terrorism’s roots,” Asia Times, January 19, 2008, http://atimes01.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA19Ak01.html.
· “Smart bombs, dangerous ideas,” Asia Times, Jan 16, 2008, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA16Ak01.html.
· “NIE Report Keeps Spreading Its Influence,” Defense News, January 14, 2008, http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3296648&C=thisweek.
· “A game of chicken in the Persian Gulf,” Asia Times, Jan 10, 2008,
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA10Ak05.html.
· US/AFGHANISTAN/IRAQ: Wars Compete for US Resources, Oxford Analytica, January 8, 2008.
· “Fallujah: The first Iraqi intifada,” Asia Times, January 8, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA08Ak01.html.
· “Beyond the bombast,” [Book Review] Asia Times, January 5, 2008, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA05Ak01.html.
· “Sneak peek at a desert Armageddon,” Asia Times, January 3, 2008, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA03Ak02.html.
· Ghost of outsourcing yet to come, UPI, December 27, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/27/analysis_ghost_of_outsourcing_yet_to_come/9024/print_view.
· U.S. military & Iran — Part 6, UPI, December 21, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/21/analysis_us_military_iran_–_part_6/1039/
· “Iraq is on the Pentagon’s track,” Asia Times, December 21, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IL21Ak05.html
· U.S. military & Iran — Part 5, UPI, December 19, 2007,
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/19/analysis_us_military_iran_–_part_5/6240.
· “Touchy, feely in the kill chain,” Asia Times, December 18, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IL18Ak01.html
· “Analysis: U.S. military & Iran — Part 4” UPI, December 14, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/14/analysis_us_military_iran_–_part_4/2123.
· “Analysis: U.S. military & Iran — Part 3,” UPI, December 11, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/11/analysis_us_military_iran_–_part_3/4663/print_view.
· “Analysis: U.S. military & Iran — Part 2,” UPI, December 6, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/06/analysis_us_military_iran_–_part_2/6972/.
· Analysis: U.S. military & Iran — Part 1, UPI, December 4, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/12/04/analysis_us_military_iran_–_part_1/8576.
· Military Privatisation to Intensify, Oxford Analytica Brief, Nov. 22, 2007.
· “No end to US’s war budget woes,” Asia Times, Oct 30, 2007,
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ30Ak04.html.
· Changes Ahead For Private Security Companies, Oxford Analytica Brief, Oct 16, 2007, http://www.forbes.com/leadership/compensation/2007/10/15/iraq-blackwater-security-cx_1016oxford.html.
· “Law is clear: Blackwater is not above it,” Asia Times, Oct 16, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ16Ak04.html.
· “The year of unmitigated gloom,” Asia Times, Sep 25, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II25Ak01.html.
· Emerging Threats – Analysis: “Blackwater — Guilty as charged?” UPI, Sept. 20, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/09/20/analysis_blackwater_guilty_as_charged/1822/print_view.
· From the Frying Pan into the Fire: U.S. Arms Sales and Military Assistance to the Persian Gulf and Middle East, BASIC Papers, September 2007, No. 55, http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP55.htm, (PDF version, http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP55.pdf ).
· “Russia’s Jakarta arms deal,” UPI Outside View: Sept. 17, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Industry/Analysis/2007/09/17/outside_view_russias_jakarta_arms_deal/1832.
· “A Sept. rollout for Iran war,” UPI Outside View: Sept. 5, 2007, http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/09/05/outside_view_a_sept_rollout_for_iran_war/3651/
· “Robots replace trigger fingers in Iraq,” Asia Times, August 29, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH29Ak01.html.
· “Taiwan shopping for arms in US,” Asia Times, August 21, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/China/IH21Ad01.html.
· “Missing US arms probe goes global,” Asia Times, August 17, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH17Ak01.html.
· “A new oil crisis? Not so fast, Asia Times, August 9, 2007, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH09Ak01.html.
· “Slaving away for Uncle Sam,” Asia Times, August 2, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH02Ak01.html.
· “A government in search of cover: Private military companies in Iraq,” (book chapter. 5, pp. 82-93), in From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (Hardcover) by Simon Chesterman (Editor), Chia Lehnardt (Editor), Oxford University Press, publication date Sep. 3, 2007, http://www.amazon.com/Mercenaries-Market-Regulation-Military-Companies/dp/0199228485/ref=sr_1_1/103-1822098-8260612?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184781594&sr=8-1
· And they call China a threat …, Asia Times, Jun 8, 2007, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IF08Ad01.html
· China’s not so new nuclear strategy, Asia Times, May 30, 2007, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IE30Ad01.html.
· A Q Khan nuclear network alive and kicking, Asia Times, May 15, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE15Df02.html.
· Japan fired up over US fighter, Asia Times, May 5, 2007,
http://atimes.com/atimes/Japan/IE05Dh01.html.
· An army popping at the seams, Asia Times, April 16, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID17Ak03.html.
· There’s a new sheriff in Kabul, Asia Times, April 13, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ID13Df03.html.
· When a readiness ‘crisis’ is a real crisis, Asia Times, April 4, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID04Ak01.html.
· Budgeting for Empire: Ambitions Outweigh Strategy, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 28, 2007,
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4112.
· The Newest Anti-Satellite Contender: China’s ASAT Test , BASIC NOTES, OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY POLICY, 16 March 2007, http://basicint.org/pubs/Notes/BN070316.htm. Also available in pdf at http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Notes/BN070316.pdf.
· Iraq’s contracts to die for, Asia Times, Feb 21, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB22Ak01.html.
· How the US Army’s being worn down in Iraq, Asia Times, Feb 7, 2007, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB07Ak01.html.
· Outside View: U.S. military over-extended, UPI, Feb 2, 2007, http://news.monstersandcritics.com/usa/features/article_1254897.php/Outside_View_U.S._military_over-extended.
· Budgeting for Empire: The Effect of Iraq and Afghanistan on Military Forces, Budgets, and Plans, Independent Institute Policy Report, January 30, 2007, http://www.independent.org/pdf/policy_reports/2007-01-30-budgeting.pdf, 48 pages.
· China’s real nuclear capabilities, Asia Times, Dec 14, 2006, http://atimes.com/atimes/China/HL14Ad01.html.
· David Isenberg, Chapter Eight, Challenges of Security Privatisation in Iraq,” pp. 149-166.
in Private Actors and Security Governance, Alan Bryden and Marina Caparini (Eds.), Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), LIT Verlag, October 2006, http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-8258-9840-7.
· “BOOK REVIEW Mercenaries or ‘contractors’?, Licensed to Kill by Robert Young Pelton, Reviewed by David Isenberg,” Asia Times,” November 4, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK04Ak01.html.
· “Outside View: How Bush strategy failed-2,” UPI, September 27, 2006, http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTU5MzEy.
· “Bush’s perverted strategy-1,” UPI, September 26, 2006, http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTU3Mzg0.
· By Ian Davis, David Isenberg and Katherine Miller, Present at the Creation: U.S. Perspectives on the Origins and Future Direction of the Proliferation Security Initiative, A background paper for a roundtable discussion organized by BASIC on: The Proliferation Security Initiative: Three Years On, 25 September 2006 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW – Washington D.C. 20036, http://basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP54.pdf.
· “The changing face of terrorism means the US needs to rethink its approach to intelligence gathering,” Irish Examiner Weekend, September 23, 2006, p. 8.
· “Another US intelligence test,” Asia Times,” August 29, 2006, http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH29Ak02.html.
· Book Review, “’Long war’ a tragic misstep,” Winning the Un-War by Charles Pena, Reviewed by David Isenberg,” Asia Times,” August 12, 2006, http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH12Aa01.html.
· “US war costs continue to shoot up,” Asia Times,” August 1, 2006, http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH01Aa01.html.
· “Shady dealers aim to arm Iraq,” Asia Times,” July 26, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HG27Aa01.html.
· “Jaw-Jaw Is Better Than War-War,” Defense News, July 17, 2006, http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3593&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=37&from_page=index.cfm
· “Hollow US defense for an empty threat,” Asia Times,” June 24, 2006, http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HF24Dg01.html.
· “Outside View: Perils of Iraq partition,” UPI Outside View Commentator, June 7, 2006(UPI), http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1170955.php/Outside_View_Perils_of_Iraq_partition
· “Military muscles bulging in SE Asia,” Asia Times,” May 2, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HE03Ae03.html.