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As violence spreads in Iraq, many have been stunned by the extensive roles that private firms now are playing in the fighting. In seeking to understand exactly what was going on, ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, The Economist, Fox News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, PBS, USA Today, and the Washington Post all turn to one source: Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.
Named among the year's top five books in international affairs by the Gelber Prize, P.W. Singer's groundbreaking book from Cornell University Press explores one of the most interesting, but little understood developments in modern warfare. Over the last decade, a global trade in hired military services has emerged. Known as "privatized military firms" (PMFs), these businesses range from small consulting firms, who sell the advice of retired generals, to transnational corporations that lease out wings of fighter jets or battalions of commandos. Such firms number in the hundreds. They have an estimated annual revenue of over $100 billion. And, they presently fill military roles in over fifty countries, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. From recent events in Iraq, where some 15,000 private military contractors work on behalf of the coalition, including the four men brutally killed in an ambush in Fallujah earlier this year, to Latin America, where three American private military contractors have been held captive by Colombian rebels for the last 16 months, to Sub-Saharan Africa, where private military personnel earlier this year were arrested as part of an alleged coup plot in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea, these firms appear in the world's hotspots and headlines again and again. Yet, until Corporate Warriors, no book has opened up this powerful new industry to the public eye.
Now released in paperback, Corporate Warriors provides the first comprehensive analysis of the private military industry. The book traces the firms' historic roots in the mercenary outfits of the past and the more recent underlying causes that led to their emergence at the end of the Cold War. In a series of detailed company portraits, Singer then describes how the industry operated and the three sectors within the industry: how military provider firms, like Executive Outcomes, a South African company made up of ex-Apartheid fighters, offer front-line combat services; how military consulting firms, like MPRI, a Virginia-based firm staffed by U.S. Army veterans, provide strategic and military training expertise for clients around the world; and, finally, how military support firms, like Vice President Cheney's former Halliburton-Brown & Root, carry out multi-billion dollar military logistics and maintenance services, including running the U.S. military's supply train in Iraq.! In fact, the book's portrait of how exactly Halliburton got into the lucrative, but now controversial, military support business has served as a resource for investors, reporters, congressional investigators, and soldiers alike.
Singer then explores the many implications of this industry, ranging from their impact on military operations to their possible roles in international peacekeeping. He analyzes how the hopes for economy and efficiency duel with the risks that come from outsourcing the most essential of government functions, that of national security and soldiers' welfare. The privatization of military services allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the way that war is carried out. However, as demonstrated in Iraq, the mix of the profit motive with the fog of war raises a series of troubling questions -for international affairs, for ethics, for management, for civil-military relations, for international law, for human rights, and, ultimately, for democracy. In other words, when it comes to military responsibilities, private companies' good may not always be to the public good.
Corporate Warriors is a hard-hitting analysis that provides a fascinating first look inside this exciting, but potentially dangerous new industry. Its research has been featured by every single major news outlet in the United States and covered by media over 20 different countries.
Easily accessible to general readers, the book provides a critical but balanced look at the businesses behind the headlines. With the continued expansion and growth of this industry in the coming years, Corporate Warriors will be the essential sourcebook for understanding how the private military industry works and how governments must respond. As one reviewer describes, "Many fine volumes about U.S. foreign policy and world events have been published in recent months. This one is something special. Corporate Warriors might just be a paradigm shift. It may change the way people look at history and analyze current events…a must-read…"
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An Academic Review of the topic...........2007-09-27
This book provides an academic view of the topic (i.e., dry and sterile). Coming from an academic press (Cornell) and an academic, however, this not a surprise. The author starts with a history of the private sector in warfare during the medieval ages up to the current period, with emphasis on trend towards increasing state control (i.e., de-privitization) over time with increasing re-privatization. The later is in regard particularly to the U.S. and its overstretched (probably temporarily) forces. This is, in the author's opinion, is cause of large increase in recent expansion of privitization in the U.S. The author then discusses various aspects, mostly negative, regarding this privitization (i.e., legal status of private "troops", reliability in case of large scale combat and increase of the danger they face, etc.).
The book has two weaknesses. The first is that it does not cover the benefits of this privitazation in sufficient detail. Especially financial savings and, more importantly, the private sector filling the void in Iraq due to lack of long-term permanent U.S. public sector troops. The author needs to address the question of how else the U.S. would be able to cope without this strategy (i.e., draft?). No discussion here. Also, some perspective on other nations' attempts at privitization would be useful for purposes of perspective and comparison with U.S. How much are they privitizing vis-a-vis the U.S. and how has it affected their combat effectiveness/cost of operations. For these reasons the book receives four stars instead of five. Nevertheless, provides a good primer on the subject. Especially considering the fact that most other books have been written by journalists from a sensationalist point of view.
Excellent book........2007-07-15
Singer's research is flawless. His writing is well organized and incisive with very astute observations. He approaches the subject with an objective understanding(he uses the term "mercenary" sparingly and only to describe actual mercenaries) of how this newly formed industry is organized and how it will affect our (United States) ability to implement foreign policy. His tip of the spear taxonomy explains the industry better than any other I have read in my own research on the topic. This book has set a great standard for academic writings on PMFs and will survive as reference source for many years to come.
Not an academic review.......2007-01-15
Corporate Warriors was in general a very boring book. Yes it was acurate and informative but was very dry. Singer seemed too biased against PMCs. I was also dissapointed to find out Singer has never been to Iraq himself to see PMCs at work there. When one writes a book with bias and with such depth I would like for them to have immersed themselves in the topic rather than write an academic report on PMCs. Sorry for the negative attitude but was dissapointed by the book.
A Solid General Guide to PMCs and PSCs, But..........2006-12-12
The title of this work is misleading. Singer has written an excellent guide to the recent history of PMCs (private military companies, such as Tim Spicer's Sandline) and PSCs (such as Blackwater), but has failed to distinguish between the two in a way made concrete for the uninformed reader. The result is that the fine line between hunting down Angolan rebels and guarding glorified haircuts like Paul Bremer has been blurred.
Sometimes this line is difficult to distinguish, but it is there. The fact that many of the PSC firms themselves sport members of past PMCs (many a South African and Rhodesian is back in action) has further blurred the situation, but you can be assured that their mandate is different. While the PSCs currently operating in Iraq and Afghanistan do their fair share of enemy engagement, they do so from a position of defense rather than from a position of offense. They are playing primarily a security role. They are not, by and large, performing paramilitary tasks at the bequest of dictators, corporations, or the State Department.
The author understands the difference, and does indeed attempt to make the distinction, the title itself tends to muddle the roles.
A must read!.......2006-10-10
A must read for anyone interested in the private security industry and the new future of war!
I served in the Kosovo region and the information about that region was 100% accurate. The US militray can no longer function without the assistance of private contractors and thier vast companies.
Cpl Dombrowski
578th Engineer BN
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The Encyclopedia of Security Management is a valuable guide for all security professionals, and an essential resource for those who need a reference work to support their continuing education. In keeping with the excellent standard set by the First Edition, the Second Edition is completely updated.
The Second Edition also emphasizes topics not covered in the First Edition, particularly those relating to homeland security, terrorism, threats to national infrastructures (e.g., transportation, energy and agriculture) risk assessment, disaster mitigation and remediation, and weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives). Fay also maintains a strong focus on security measures required at special sites such as electric power, nuclear, gas and chemical plants; petroleum production and refining facilities; oil and gas pipelines; water treatment and distribution systems; bulk storage facilities; entertainment venues; apartment complexes and hotels; schools; hospitals; government buildings; and financial centers. The articles included in this edition also address protection of air, marine, rail, trucking and metropolitan transit systems.
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Since World War II, America's economic landscape has undergone a profound transformation. The effects of this change can be seen in the decline of the traditional industrial heartland and the emergence of new high tech industrial complexes in California, Texas, Boston, and Florida. The Rise of the Gunbelt demonstrates that this economic restructuring is a direct result of the rise of the military industrial complex (MIC) and a wholly new industry based on defense spending and Pentagon contacts. Chronicling the dramatic growth of this vast complex, the authors analyze the roles played by the shift from land and sea warfare to aerial combat in World War II, the Cold War, the birth of aerospace and the consequent radical transformation of the airplane industry, and labor and major defense corporations such as Boeing, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas. Exploring the reasons for the shifts in defense spending--including the role of lobbyists and the Department of Defense in awarding contracts--and the effects on regional and national economic development, this comprehensive study reveals the complexities of the MIC.
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The U. S. Department of Defense is actually one of the world's largest planned economies. Like all planned economies, it has gross inefficiencies. This book is a penetrating analysis of the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and offers new insights into how meaningful reform can be achieved.
Prior to World War II, the United States maintained insignificant military forces and weapons manufacturing industries during peace. But the weapons industry that has grown since the end of World War II inhabits an ill-defined zone between genuine private enterprise and complete government planning. Does this unprecedented military-industrial-congressional complex efficiently serve the public's interest in national security?
In this book, eleven contributing scholars analyze such questions as whether overall military spending is too high or too low, why the military procurement system remains impervious to reform, and how special interests exploit the system.
This book does not leave readers with simple solutions; depoliticizing defense spending and eliminating military procurement mismanagement will not be easy. But this book does lay the foundation of understanding to help necessary reforms take place.
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Provocative, refreshing...Calder's grasp of both history and international affairs are impressive, as one might expect of a scholar of his stature...--South China Morning Post
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Thorough review of recent situation, analysis somewhat dated.......2000-06-14
The author did an excellent job of reviewing recent developments (as of 1997) in East Asian security affairs and provided a wealth of information and useful data. He also astutely identified the looming energy crisis in East Asia as the greatest threat to long term regional security.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with analyses of this nature, subsequent turns of events rendered some of his points moot. Under current circumstances some of his arguments appear dated. Yes, China's appetite for foreign oil has continued to balloon but the abject dependency on the Middle East and the vital sea lanes of South-East Asia has failed to materialize. Instead, China has looked closer to home in the direction of ex-Soviet central Asia. The Chinese have invested heavily in oil fields and pipelines in Kazakhstan, increasing Chinese stake significantly in the hornets' nest of a region and laying what can be the fuse to an explosive conflict with Russia. The author touched upon these areas only lightly.
The author was also too ready to dismiss the effectiveness of global trading regimes such as the GATT (the precursor to the WTO) and emphasize the rising tide of economic regionalism. But perhaps there's nothing sinister behind the rising share of intra-regional trade - it could be just that people prefer to trade where the routes are short and the transport costs are low. Ironically increasing liberalization of the global capital market may contribute to the rising share of regional trade, as multinationals invest locally to produce for the regional market.
In the end, in a world of freer trade and greater economic integration, no nation will have much incentive to embark upon risky military adventures to obtain what can be more easily obtained in the market. For this reason alone we should wish the WTO well, for although free trade alone does not guarantee prosperity for all, it does increase the likelihood of peace.
In the event of the failure of trade liberalization, we may well find ourselves in a deja vu world of triangulation between the US, China and Russia, this time along economic self-interests instead of ideological lines. This is a prospect that the author did not forsee, for - perhaps reflecting an extensive background in Japanese studies - he envisioned a triangular stand-off between the US, China and Japan. This is somewhat unlikely, as in the face of a much greater common Russian threat, China and Japan will find their interests broadly aligned. The current obsession with containing Chinese ambitions in the Pacific may prove misplaced, and the real flash point may be between that of an East Asian camp led by China confronting a Russian-Islamist alliance cemented by oil, quite apart from Israeli-Palestinian politics.
Nonetheless, the book is worth a read for the great store of information that it contains.
Useful regional review [US view] Prediction flawed by events.......1999-01-29
Asia's Deadly Triangle: How arms, energy and growth threaten to destabilize Asia-Pacific It is tempting to assume that this book was written throughout as an introduction to Chapter 10. In turn that chapter may have helped get a job as Senior Adviser to the US State Department for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. That post attained, a sensitive person might now want to forget having written and published some of the chapters only a year or two earlier. The ten `Precepts' of Chapter 10 still seem useful for an Adviser. Their presentation there suits the earlier title Pacific Defense, possibly subtitled as defense of US interests in the North China Sea. To be sure - a phrase that appears a lot - the advice should be considered by any smaller power dabbling in the region. Players within the region of course need to know as much as possible about major contributions to US thought. If some of the advice feels like motherhood statements, Mother does sometimes know best. The perils on the horizon at publication time related to an expected energy crisis. The region, using ever more oil, is nearing the end of proven reserves. Imports are steadily rising. Several of the largest military forces on earth are/were rapidly acquiring more sophisticated weaponry in line with growing prosperity. The dangers are assumed to be most concentrated in the "Northeast Asian Arc of Crisis that surrounds Japan" (p.ix). The description probably sits well in briefing papers, but not so well as a locator on a map. A number of the threats make considerable sense, but could be helped by further explanation. The link in time of Chinese ambit claims in the adjoining sea to oil exploration there is made. A map even shows the extent of Chinese claims, but not of the suggested oil rich regions, in the South China Sea. In terms of time and space it is fascinating that "China's most ambitious claims" are said, possibly like one of the early tragic explorers, to "..expire virtually within sight of Indonesia." Among the dangers foreseen, people without predictions in print may be happy that they were therefore spared other omissions. The nuclear rumblings under the Indian Subcontinent can possibly be inferred, but only from references to India's "undeclared" (p.129) nuclear capacity. Pakistan does not figure, except possibly as a buyer of missile technology. It is unfair but irresistible to note (table, p.129) description of the US as "undeclared" under the heading `nuclear capacity'. More serious, and apparently invisible, has been the wave of currency instability. On p.153 there is a very favourable reference to "interdependent global currency markets" ..which.. "handle well over $1 trillion a day in transactions with remarkable ease." That this is around ten times the `daily GLOBAL national product' escapes comment. It is certainly not flagged as an element of risk. A sentence on p.20, "Southeast Asian economies, however, are thus spared the roller-coaster oscillations of Northeast Asia and glide along on a more even keel", might now be modified. Despite such apparent weaknesses of the initial analysis, the Precepts of Chapter 10 are still worthy of attention. If there is an important weakness in the precepts, it may be `super-power consciousness'. It is taken for granted that all parties involved in the region need access to, and means to analyse, plentiful information. Carried from earlier chapters is an implication; that an information collection agency can always be improved by increasing its staff. Some of the shorthand historical insights, and consequent time frames, would be subject to discussion by fellow commentators. On p.24 there is an implication that ICBMs on nuclear submarines were deployed "throughout the Cold War". The one paragraph description of several centuries of European Balance of Power diplomacy on p.127 short changes several motifs. On p.169 there is a sentence starting "Had the Gulf War not ended so rapidly and successfully, from a US perspective,...." There is also an implication on p.199 that US involvement in WWI had it embroiled in a major war in the Pacific. Some technological assertions need further consideration. Much of the description of nuclear power equates reactor plutonium with material suitable for bombs on a short time scale. Validity of that equation depends critically on the definition of a short time scale. The assertion on p.203 that "energy is fungible" may refer only to oil. Even so, a different petroleum source may involve major modification of refinery plant. A paragraph about alternative energy on p.204 swings rather widely in evaluation of existing initiatives without reference to source documents. Long distance "superconductive power lines" are suggested for serious exploration. The appropriate time scale for that may well eclipse those for the rest of the book. Production is agreeably light on `typo's. The word `withdrawl' (p.93) somehow escaped any spell checker. That spell checker would miss `large commercial bands' - presumably `banks' - on p.176. Likewise `as its early driving course' - presumably `force' - on p.194. One might attribute such glitches to production by dictaphone with occasional lapses in proof reading. One reason to doubt that diagnosis is the number of `blockbuster' sentences. At approximately 12 words per line, four line sentences, sometimes more than one per page, must be considered excessive. Five line sentences are easily found but fortunately less frequent. The ten line sentence running from p.207 onto p.208 is rendered less daunting by use of a colon and two semicolons. If a second edition is considered, drastic simplification of syntax should be made. It should also be possible to restructure so that the same information is not repeated in several places. The book seems strongest in foreshadowing political responses to predicted stresses in the region. It does not shine in predicting all sources of emerging stresses. Accurate prediction is, however, disastrously rare. Those studying the region would do well to add the book to their reference shelves.
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Still relevant and interesting.......2001-03-16
In this book, published in 1992, a group of academics from the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy have written a series of brilliant and provocative essays on the economic foundations of the next security system, that is, of the XXI century. They define three broad scenarios: a) Controlled multilateralism; b) coexistence of blocks; and c) neomercantilism.
So far, it seems that they were right in predicting that the most likely and desirable outcome would be some form of controlled multilateralism. Certainly, it could be said that coexistence of blocks is also a reality, but we are seeing a lot more interrelation between these blocks than what the scenario took into account. Some countries have built institutional bridges across the blocks, like Mexico, which belongs to NAFTA, but also has a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, several Latin American countries, Israel, and is now negotiating one with Japan, beyond its membership in APEC.
The security system seems to stay also within controlled multilateralism, as actions on the former Yugoslavia and Irak show. Summing up, the book's arguments and points are still relevant to analyze the world's options regarding this new century. The interplay between the economic and the security systems are clearly defined, and the tone of the book is objective, neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic. It's good analysis, even if not each and every detail is still accurate. Recommended for students of very different specialties: international economics, national security, prospective studies, etc.
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Philip Holder covers it all: from awareness training, liability issues, the psychology of defensive tactics and threat reduction;to applications of hand-to-hand combat, weapons defense, and defending against multiple attackers.
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Be Aware, Be Prepared.......2002-06-01
Dr.Holder analyzes the nature of defensive tactics from A-Z.
This straight-forward book breaks down the need for thinking defensively and the psychology of defense. In addition, the author demonstates practical common-sense methodology towards developing a defense-oriented thought process. In finding yourself in a potentially dangerous situation, the first question the calm mind asks is "How did I get in this situation?"
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Defense for professionals.......2000-03-26
This book is an excellent guide for the security professional. It encompasses superb instructions in many ways to protect yourself and others. Although not a security professional full-time I found the book a useful addition to my control and restraint repertoire. The only criticism I can find with this book is that it appears to be written for the experienced security professional so all beginners should ideally have a firm background in military or martial art self defence techniques to really appreciate it.
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did the military constrain the broader economy?.......2006-07-04
Nincic wrotes this in the last decade of the Cold War. Though of course he did not know this. He analyses the US and Soviet military budgets. For the US, he asks if the spending was also used for electoral or economic gains of various politicians. The expansion of military power does involve some type of sacrifice in the civilian sector, and he discusses what tradeoffs are involved. One figure graphs US defense spending and unemployment from 1950-80.
Another problem he looks at is whether the US military budget was reducing the competitiveness of its civilian firms. If the best engineers and scientists worked on military projects, did this adversely affect the civilian products that were to compete with those from other countries? Where those had lesser percentages of their GDPs devoted to the military. Here, Japan and West Germany are clearly meant as those other countries. Though other developed economies might also be implied.
Looking back from 2006, remember that in 82 the US was coming out of a recession. And that Japan was and would be still going strong till 89. After which it went into 15 years of stagnation. While the US would vastly outperform the other developed nations in the 90s.
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