The invisible soldiers : how America outsourced our security /

The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly, of how we privatized our national security.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hagedorn, Ann (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2014]
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Table of 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.