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Contractors and War : the Transformation of United States' Expeditionary Operations.
The U.S. military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the U.S....
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Christopher Kinsey and Malcolm Hugh Patterson; Part I: The Nature of Contractor Support in Future US Military Operations; 1. Overview of American Government Expeditionary Operations Utilizing Private Contractors -- Robert Mandel; 2. Attitudes on the Ground: What Soldiers Think about Civilian Contractors -- Ryan Kelty and Darcy Schnack; 3. Looking Beyond Iraq: Contractors in US Global Activities -- Renée de Nevers; Part II: Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations: A Market Growth Area; 4. The Elephant in the Room -- William J. Flavin. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5. Sharing the Same Space: The Evolving Relationship between US NGOs, Battlefield Contractors, and US Armed Forces -- Samuel A. Worthington6. PMSCs and Risk in Counterinsurgency Warfare -- Kateri Carmola; Part III: Legal Aspects of Future US Operations; 7. Contractors and the Law -- Geoffrey S. Corn; 8. Contractors' Wars and the Commissionon Wartime Contracting -- Allison Stanger; 9. Private Contractors, Public Consequences: The Need for an Effective Criminal Justice Framework -- David E. Price; Part IV: US Administrative Structures Required to Sustain Contractor Operations. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10. How to Decide When a Contractor Source Is Better to Use Than a Government Source -- Frank Camm11. Reforming the US Approach to Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations -- Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.; 12. Contractors Supporting Military Operations: Many Challenges Remain -- Jacques S. Gansler and William Lucyshyn; Conclusion -- Christopher Kinsey and Malcolm Hugh Patterson; Contributors; Index. | |
| 520 | |a The U.S. military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the U.S. government expects the military to conduct operations--with much of that transformation contingent on the use of contractors to deliver support to the armed forces during military campaigns and afterwards. Contractors and War explains the reasons behind this transformation and evaluates how the private se. | ||
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