In Iraq, private companies like Blackwater, Custer Battles and ArmorGroup guarded installations, gathered intelligence, and killed presumed insurgents.
Once you understand the logic of the installation, the intelligence behind the show becomes apparent.
Traffic police officers are not typically armed in the streets of Kabul, and the headquarters does not have the same level of security as the intelligence installations.
In 1998, late on a Sunday night, only blocks from the country's most-feared military intelligence installations, there was no one out on these sidewalks.
In the first 10 weeks of this year, before the coalition came to power, 17 suicide bombings were recorded in Pakistan, some of them in the major cities, and many of them aimed at army and intelligence installations.
By now, wary of a coup and distrustful of even his own security forces, President Fujimori called together members of his high command and made them ride in his limousine, in plain view of bodyguards, as he rode to military and intelligence installations to show who was in charge.
Late in the afternoon, he drove in a motorcade with his interior and defense ministers to visit military and intelligence installations around Lima. Military analysts characterized Mr. Montesinos's landing here as a direct challenge to the president's authority by the military.
The SBS went on to serve in the Korean War deployed on operations along the North Korean coast as well as operating behind enemy lines destroying lines of communication, installations and gathering intelligence.
The attack on the intelligence installation, in the Harasta suburb of Damascus, was one of several clashes claimed Wednesday by the Free Syrian Army.
A recently declassified State Department document shows that Latin American officers involved in Operation Condor, the joint effort in the 1970's by right-wing governments to crush left-wing opposition, used an American communications installation to share intelligence.
