Patriots for profit : contractors and the military in U.S. national security / Thomas C. Bruneau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruneau, Thomas C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private military companies--United States.

Private military companies.

Civil-military relations--United States.

Civil-military relations.

National security--United States.

National security.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with policy-makers. In addition to analyzing the impact of defense reform initiatives over the past thirty years, the book includes the recent phenomenon of ""contracting-out"" security that has resulted in greater numbers of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than uniformed military personnel. <BR

Contents:

Problems with how we think about U.S. civil-military relations

A comparative approach to the analysis of civil-military relations

The institutions of U.S. civil-military relations

Defense reform: institutional and political impediments to effectiveness

The scale and politics of contracting out security

An assessment of the performance of private security contractors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804781855

0804781850

OCLC:

746747210