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Contractors and war : the transformation of US 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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Contractors and war : |b the transformation of US expeditionary operations / |c edited by Christopher Kinsey and Malcolm Hugh Patterson. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Overview of American government expeditionary operations utilizing private contractors / Robert Mandel -- Attitudes on the ground : what soldiers think about civilian contractors / Ryan Kelty & Darcy Schnack -- Looking beyond Iraq : contractors in U.S. global activities / Renee de Nevers -- The elephant in the room / Bill Flavin -- Sharing the same space : the evolving relationship between U.S. NGOs, battlefield contractors and U.S. armed forces / Sam Worthington -- PMSCS and risk in counterinsurgency warfare / Kateri Carmola -- Contractors and the law / Geoffrey Corn -- Contractors' wars and the Commission on Wartime Contracting / Allison Stanger -- Private contractors, public consequences : the need for an effective criminal justice framework / David Price -- How to decide when a contractor source is better to use than a government source / Frank Camm -- Reforming the US approach to stabilization and reconstruction operations / Stuart Bowen -- Contractors supporting military operations : many challenges remain / Jacques Gansler & William Lucyshyn. | |
| 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 evaluate. | ||
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