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Outsourced empire : how militias, mercenaries, and contractors support US statecraft / Andrew Thomson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Andrew, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private military companies.
- Mercenary troops.
- Paramilitary forces.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Paramilitary forces--United States.
- Mercenary troops--United States.
- Private military companies--United States.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces p. 15
- 2 Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: "Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government" p. 41
- 3 Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors p. 65
- 4 Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict, and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft p. 92
- 5 Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes p. 114
- 6 The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare, and the Global Projection of Force p. 138.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0745337031
- 9780745337036
- 0745337058
- 9780745337050
- OCLC:
- 1040679842
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