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"David Isenberg was among the very first serious researchers to recognize a unique industry among the many firms providing services to governments in conflict in post-conflict environments. While others dismissed the phenomenon or soon departed into populist conjecture, David grasped the history and recognized both the long-term value and sober implications of this maturing sector. His research and articles in the mid 1990s helped stimulate a cottage industry of scholastic and journalistic research on the topic-often more absurd than serious. No one else considers this topic with the same breadth of knowledge or rational understanding, and few are as good at discerning genuine areas of concern from great gobs of absurd speculation."-Doug Brooks, Founder and Director of the International Peace Operations Association
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Offers an examination of the role that private security and military contractors have played in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. From their limited use in China during World War II, for example, to their often clandestine use in Vietnam ferrying supplies before the war escalated in 1964 and 1965 when their role became more prominent, public-private military contractors (PMC's) have made essential contributions to the success and failures of the military and United States.Today, with an emphasis on force restructuring mandated by the Pentagon, the role of PMC's, and their impact on policy-making decisions is at an all time peak. This work analyzes that impact, focusing specifically on PMC's in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The author dissects their responsibilities, the friction that exists between contractors and military commanders, problems of protocol and accountability, as well as the problems of regulation and control that PMC companies create for domestic politics.The author organizes his work thematically, addressing all facets of PMC's in the current conflict from identifying who the most influential companies are and how they got to that point, to the issues that the government, military, and contractors themselves face when they take the field. He also analyzes the problem of command, control, and accountability. It is no secret that PMC's have been the source of consternation and grief to American military commanders in the field. As they work to establish more routine protocols in the field, however, questions are also being raised about the role of the contractors here at home. The domestic political arena is perhaps the most crucial battleground on which the contractors must have success. After all, they make their corporate living from taxpayer dollars, and as such, calls for regulation have resonated throughout Washington, D.C., growing louder as the profile of PMC's increases during the current conflict.
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"David Isenberg was among the very first serious researchers to recognize a unique industry among the many firms providing services to governments in conflict in post-conflict environments. While others dismissed the phenomenon or soon departed into populist conjecture, David grasped the history and recognized both the long-term value and sober implications of this maturing sector. His research and articles in the mid 1990s helped stimulate a cottage industry of scholastic and journalistic research on the topic-often more absurd than serious. No one else considers this topic with the same breadth of knowledge or rational understanding, and few are as good at discerning genuine areas of concern from great gobs of absurd speculation."-Doug Brooks, Founder and Director of the International Peace Operations Association
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Offers an examination of the role that private security and military contractors have played in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. From their limited use in China during World War II, for example, to their often clandestine use in Vietnam ferrying supplies before the war escalated in 1964 and 1965 when their role became more prominent, public-private military contractors (PMC's) have made essential contributions to the success and failures of the military and United States.Today, with an emphasis on force restructuring mandated by the Pentagon, the role of PMC's, and their impact on policy-making decisions is at an all time peak. This work analyzes that impact, focusing specifically on PMC's in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The author dissects their responsibilities, the friction that exists between contractors and military commanders, problems of protocol and accountability, as well as the problems of regulation and control that PMC companies create for domestic politics.The author organizes his work thematically, addressing all facets of PMC's in the current conflict from identifying who the most influential companies are and how they got to that point, to the issues that the government, military, and contractors themselves face when they take the field. He also analyzes the problem of command, control, and accountability. It is no secret that PMC's have been the source of consternation and grief to American military commanders in the field. As they work to establish more routine protocols in the field, however, questions are also being raised about the role of the contractors here at home. The domestic political arena is perhaps the most crucial battleground on which the contractors must have success. After all, they make their corporate living from taxpayer dollars, and as such, calls for regulation have resonated throughout Washington, D.C., growing louder as the profile of PMC's increases during the current conflict.
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