Private armies

Dick.Gray@bull.com
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:33:11 -0700

Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr> asks:

>How could an anarcho-capitalist nation deal with an outside
>aggression???

>Can competing entreprises or individuals offer the same level of
>service than a one block organisation, like the army?

Remember the American Revolution, Emmanuel? The populace didn't need a government to drive off the British aggressors, they took up arms of their own volition - and the rest is history.

Too bad the revolution has been consistently betrayed by the government that was set up specifically to perpetuate it.

Dick