Patriots for profit
Subtitle: contractors and the military in U.S. national security
By: Thomas C. Bruneau
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780804775489; 9780804775496
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Private military companies; Civil-military relations; National security; Military policy
Description: Develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the U.S. armed forces in fulfilling roles and missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost--with special attention to the recent phenomenon of contracting-out security to private security contractors some roles and missions that were previously the responsibility of the uniformed military. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Problems with how we think about U.S. civil-military relations; title: A comparative approach to the analysis of civil-military relations; title: The institutions of U.S. civil-military relations; title: Defense reform: institutional and political impediments to effectiveness; title: The scale and politics of contracting out security; title: An assessment of the performance of private security contractors.