Can you build partners with preditors?

[davidbfpo]

This is a question of psychology - when trying to build long term partnerships is something lost when there is no shared risk?

In developed nations there will be a greater understanding of partnerships and politics, especially within the "chattering classes". This should make the psychology easier. The partnership will rarely involve the population, only state institutions, civil and military being perennial. There are exceptions to this, notably in Western Europe the Berlin Blockade (1947?) and the cruise missile deployment - even then it was a minority that was engaged.

No-one could have considered NATO without a US civil-military presence in Western Europe.

In my opinion where the difference is in less developed nations. No "boots on the ground" makes partnerships very limited even with state institutions, a point Stan and Tom Odom have repeatedly made regarding Africa.

Where is the partnership / shared risk with providing information to a drone controller? There is the chance of discovery and consequent penalties.

[Fuchs]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preditor

or

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/predator

???

[Van]

Fuchs,
You, sir, owe me a new keyboard.
That was excellent.