On Saturday, the Washington Post published a good piece on Blackwater and its owner, Erik Prince. Its interesting to see how fast the company has grown over the last ten years, and how the initial vision was adapted to leverage the political climate created after the Yemen bombing and 9/11.

Building Blackwater – washingtonpost.com

Blackwater has an airstrip and hangar filled with gleaming helicopters, a manufacturing plant for assembling armored cars, a pound filled with bomb-sniffing dogs and a lake with mock ships for training sailors.