Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies

Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies
ISBN-10
1608712486
ISBN-13
9781608712489
Series
Mercenaries
Category
Political Science
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2014-01-09
Publisher
CQ Press
Author
Alan Axelrod

Description

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.

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