Mercenaries

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Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business
1.  Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business by Madelaine Drohan
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  "Canadian journalist Drohan looks at the use of armed force by private enterprise from the days of Cecil Rhodes to contemporary 'private military companies' like Executive Outcomes."
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An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair
2.  An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer
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  "Tim Spicer's Autobiography, written with his PR agent Sarah Pearson. Includes self-serving accounts of his role in a number of incidents including  Sandline's intervention in Papau New Guinea"
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The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
3.  The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security by Deborah D. Avant
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  "A useful study of the growing private security sector"
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Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
4.  Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by P. W. Singer
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  "Definitive study of the privatisation of warfare. A brilliant piece of cutting edge scholarship."
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Iraq,Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Open Media)
5.  Iraq,Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Open Media) by Pratap Chatterjee
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  "CorpWatch journalist Pratap Chatterjee reveals the massive scale of private profiteering in the wake of the US-led occupation."
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The Wonga Coup: Simon Mann's Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa
6.  The Wonga Coup: Simon Mann's Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa by Adam Roberts
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  "The story of a failed 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea by British and South African mercenaries."
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Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
7.  Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton
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  "Perhaps the best book on the mercenaries of the Baghdad bubble era"
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