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Contractors and war : the transformation of US expeditionary operations / edited by Christopher Kinsey and Malcolm Hugh Patterson.
LIBRA UC267 .C575 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defense contracts--United States.
- Defense contracts.
- Private military companies.
- United States.
- Contracting out--United States.
- Contracting out.
- Government contractors--United States.
- Government contractors.
- United States--Armed Forces--Procurement.
- Armed Forces.
- Private military companies--United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Contractors & war
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Examines United States military contractors, and evaluates how the private sector will shape military operations.
- Contents:
- Overview of American government expeditionary operations utilizing private contractors / Robert Mandel
- Attitudes on the ground : what soldiers think about civilian contractors / Ryan Kelty & Darcy Schnack
- Looking beyond Iraq : contractors in U.S. global activities / Renee de Nevers
- The elephant in the room / Bill Flavin
- Sharing the same space : the evolving relationship between U.S. NGOs, battlefield contractors and U.S. armed forces / Sam Worthington
- PMSCS and risk in counterinsurgency warfare / Kateri Carmola
- Contractors and the law / Geoffrey Corn
- Contractors' wars and the Commission on Wartime Contracting / Allison Stanger
- Private contractors, public consequences : the need for an effective criminal justice framework / David Price
- How to decide when a contractor source is better to use than a government source / Frank Camm
- Reforming the US approach to stabilization and reconstruction operations / Stuart Bowen
- Contractors supporting military operations : many challenges remain / Jacques Gansler & William Lucyshyn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804769907
- 0804769907
- 9780804769914
- 0804769915
- OCLC:
- 773667400
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