Private contractors and the reconstruction of Iraq
Subtitle: transforming military logistics
By: Christopher Kinsey.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780415379649; 9780203874592
Subjects: Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Contracting out -- Iraq; Private military companies -- Iraq; Mercenary troops -- Iraq; Logistics; Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-; Iraq -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
Table of contents: title: The role of mercenaries and contractors in supplying war; title: Contractors and the consequence of political mismanagement of the Iraq invasion; title: Contractorising war : the US government's reliance on contractors in Iraq; title: Strategic contracting and contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq; title: Outsourcing war : the use of contractors in support of the UK operation in Iraq; title: Armed contractors operate with impunity : a gap in the law or a lack of political will and resources to enforce jurisdiction.