The company, founded by secretive right-wing Christian supremacist Erik Prince, pictured above, had deep ties to the Bush Administration and served as a sort of neoconservative Praetorian Guard for a borderless war launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Yeah, I think we can pretty much discard that link.
For an insight into his current thinking on business opportunities, have a read of this re: how to engage ISIL.
http://time.com/3490414/isis-isil-blackwater/
If the old Blackwater team were still together, I have high confidence that a multi-brigade-size unit of veteran American contractors or a multi-national force could be rapidly assembled and deployed to be that necessary ground combat team.
Not a lot of regret expressed there.
Praetorian Guard is a reasonably accurate description for his former organisation's activities; administration, special forces and covert intel ops directed from a higher level than the bread-and-butter army.
The brazenness of Blackwater/Academi has always amazed me.
"Secretive" "Christian Supremecist" "neoconservative Praetorian Guard" "borderless war"
I'll give you right wing. I've no idea what level his ties t o Bush were, but I believe he still got work under Obama.