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Money for Mayhem - Mercenaries, Private Military Companies, Drones, and the Future of War
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The way war is waged is evolving quickly—igniting the rise of
private military contractors that offer military-style services as
part of their core business model. Arduino unpacks the tradeoffs
involved when conflict is increasingly waged not by national
armies, but by professional outfits that thrive on chaos. This book
charts the rise of private military actors from Russia, China, and
the Middle East using primary source data, in-person interviews,
and field research amongst operations in conflict zones around the
world. Individual stories narrated by mercenaries, military
trainers, security businessmen, hackers, and drone pilots will be
used to introduce the beginning of each chapter. The book ends by
considering today’s trajectories in the deployment of mercenaries
by state, corporations, or even terrorist organizations and what it
will mean for the future of conflict. The book follows private
security contractors that take on missions in different countries
with a variety of challenges. These include a former Singaporean
commando working with a Chinese company in Kabul, a former British
Royal Marine leading a Kurdish private military company in Erbil
protecting BP’s oil, and a former Russian Spetsnaz defending
commercial vessels from the Somali coast to the Gulf of Guinea.
Aside from the human component, the book closely follows the trends
in the adoption of unmanned lethal weapons and it peeks into the
future of weapons that can decide autonomously to kill humans. One
chapter is dedicated to loitering munitions, better known as
suicide drones, used by Israel and the Iranian Islamic
Revolutionary Guard for remote-controlled assassination. ISIS’s
reengineered Chinese DJI commercial drones that are used for
propaganda operations or as advanced artillery spotters complete
the picture of the range of threats the world will routinely face
in less than a decade. First-hand data and intimate knowledge of
the actors involved in the market for force allow a fully grounded
narrative with personal input. Through this prism, the reader gains
an understanding of the human, security, and political risks that
are part of this industry. The book specifically reveals the risk
that unaccountable mercenaries pose in increasing the threshold for
conflict, the threat to traditional military forces, the corruption
in political circles, and the rising threat of proxy conflicts in
the US rivalry with China and Russia. In a nutshell, the book gazes
into the crystal ball to forecast what the future might look like
in a world ruled by private armies.
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Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Alessandro Arduino
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Foreword by: |
Sean McFate
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5381-7031-1 |
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LSN: |
1-5381-7031-0 |
Barcode: |
9781538170311 |
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