Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies (Hardcover, Revised ed.)

Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies provides a comprehensive survey and guide to the mercenary forces, entrepreneurs, and corporations that are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation-all are outsourced to a greater or lesser degree in the U.S. military-while countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and Australia rely on privatization in one form or another. This comprehensive one-volume work covers the full range of mercenaries active on the international military scene today, including a concise history of mercenaries and private armies on land, sea, and in the air. Key Features Illuminating sidebars include biographies of major figures, key statistics, historical and current documents, contracts, and legislation on private armies and outsourced military services. Each chapter includes a bibliography of books, journal articles, and web sites. A general bibliography concludes the entire work. Mercenaries is a must-have reference for academic libraries, public libraries, and any social science, governmental, or non-governmental reference collection.

General

Imprint:	CQ Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2014
Authors:	Alan Axelrod
Dimensions:	231 x 190 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	440
Edition:	Revised ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-60871-248-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	1-60871-248-6
Barcode:	9781608712489

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