WORLD NEWS: "Blackwater Plans Effort Against Piracy," by August Cole, Wall Street Journal, 3 December 2008.

Blackwater Worldwide (it used to be Blackwater USA but got smart about its overseas potential--a lesson to the industry) begins meetings in London with potential clients for its newest venture: antipiracy ops.

Blackwater is simply aggressively marketing as a hedge against a post-Iraq market.

But again, another solid sign of frontier integrating activities drawing interest from private-sector providers--Pinkerton of the high seas!