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Betraying our troops: the destructive results of privatizing war

Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Cast of characters
  • Foreword / Jonathan Alter
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Blitzkrieg
  • ch. 1. The private side of war
  • ch. 2. Smelling smoke
  • ch. 3. Where are my missiles?
  • ch. 4. Breaking down
  • ch. 5. Rumsfeld's Army
  • pt. 2. Mission accomplished
  • ch. 6. Dust and desperation
  • ch. 7. Afflict the comfortable
  • ch. 8. For the money
  • ch. 9. A different kind of suburb
  • ch. 10. The green zone
  • pt. 3. Digging in
  • ch. 11. Feeding frenzy
  • ch. 12. Stepping into the breach
  • ch. 13. The Berlin Wall
  • ch. 14. Corporate cowboys in a war zone
  • ch. 15. The hired guns
  • pt. 4. The slog
  • ch. 16. The other side of the force
  • ch. 17. A different kind of black water
  • ch. 18. The replacements
  • pt. 5. Exposure
  • ch. 19. The hand that feeds you
  • ch. 20. Don Quixote vs. the Chairman
  • ch. 21. Legal prayer
  • ch. 22. Slumlord of Iraq
  • ch. 23. The empire strikes back
  • ch. 24. You go to war with the secretary of defense you have
  • ch. 25. The war service industry
  • Afterword
  • Appendix
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.
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Author/Creator:
Rasor, Dina, 1956-
Contributors:
Bauman, Robert (Robert H.), 1941-
Alter, Jonathan
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Languages:
English
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Item content: English
Main Work:
Betraying our troops: the destructive results of privatizing war [by Rasor, D.]
Subjects:
United States Army — Supplies and stores — History — 21st century
United States Army — Transportation — History — 21st century
Iraq War, 2003-2011 — Logistics — United States
Privatization — United States
Contracting out — United States
United States Army
Iraq War (2003-2011)
2000-2099
Logistics
Privatization
Contracting out
Transportation
United States
Iraq
Genres:
History
General Notes:
"Foreword by Jonathan Alter"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
Physical Description:
xiii, 274 pages ; 28 cm
Digital Characteristics:
text file
Call Numbers:
UC23 2003- .R37 2007eb
ISBNs:
9780230610828 (electronic bk.)
023061082X (electronic bk.)
OCLC Numbers:
228144587