The Invisible Soldiers
How America Outsourced Our Security
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: xii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
"The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly: how we privatized our national security"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Transformation. Beginnings ; Out of the shadows ; A watershed year ; The faint hum of secrecy ; Rules of engagement ; Privatized mayhem -- Reaction. Sounding the alarm ; "A remarkably unprecedented experiment" ; Conquering chaos ; The General and Kadhim ; "What's all the fuss about?" ; A thicket of ironies -- Expansion. Shell games ; Beyond Iraq ; Riding the wave ; And now, the debate? ; "Full speed ahead" ; Big Brother's big brother.
Subjects:
National security -- United States.
Privatization -- United States.
Contracting out -- United States.
Defense industries -- Privatization -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security.
HISTORY / Military / General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Politics and government.
National security -- United States.
Privatization -- United States.
Contracting out -- United States.
Defense industries -- Privatization -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security.
HISTORY / Military / General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General.
United States -- Military policy.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN:
9781416598800 (hardback)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GOV Military Hag | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-291) and index.