War PLC: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary - Softcover

Armstrong, Stephen

 
9780571241255: War PLC: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571241255 ISBN 13: 9780571241255
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms worldwide. Whether they're ex-special forces, CIA spooks or Foreign Legionnaires, you'll find them exchanging gunfire with insurgents in Baghdad, patrolling government buildings in Afghanistan, or spying on environmental protestors. The lucrative contracts of the 'War on Terror' have made their plans even more ambitious - to offer governments and corporations discrete and well-trained private armies. These corporate soldiers are part of the last great outsourcing - the privatisation of war. This book examines how we got here, how these companies operate, and how close we are to letting them run our battlefields.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Armstrong is a freelance journalist who writes for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, GQ and Esquire as well as presenting the occasional documentary on Radio 4. His first book was The White Island, a history of Ibiza.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571241255
ISBN 13 
9780571241255
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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