A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq
Schumacher, Gerald (Col.)
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Book ID : 33127
ISBN-10 : 81-7049-321-8 / 8170493218
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7049-321-1 / 9788170493211
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2007
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
304p., Figs., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
As the U.S. military shrinks, a private army is stepping into the breach. Some refer to them as mercenaries; to others, they are soldiers of fortune. They call themselves contractors. They drive trucks, train soldiers and policemen, and protect supply convoys and U.S. diplomats. Who are they? How did they get into this line of work? Work do they do it? A Bloody Business: America's war Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq takes you into the lives of the men and women who work in the most dangerous places on earth. Unlike our soldiers, and airmen, they have few regulations or laws limiting their conduct or their business. Instead, guided by instinct and experiment, civilian contractors develop their own means of survival. The book offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of civilian thousand private military contractors are equivalent of the hired guns of the Old West. Travel with them in the scorching heat of the Kuwaiti desert, through the streets of Baghdad, and down the highways in Iraq. You are sure to find that the business of war zone contracting is, indeed, a bloody business.
