 | Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business by Madelaine Drohan
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $2.93 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.
|
 | An Unorthodox Soldier by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer OBE
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $5.99 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
|
 | The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security by Deborah D. Avant
Buy new: $33.29 / Used from: $16.00 A useful study of the growing private security sector
|
 | Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by P. W. Singer
Buy used from: $4.28 Definitive study of the privatisation of warfare. A brilliant piece of cutting edge scholarship.
|
 | Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Open Media) by Pratap Chatterjee
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $0.01 CorpWatch journalist Pratap Chatterjee reveals the massive scale of private profiteering in the wake of the US-led occupation.
|
 | The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts
Buy used from: $0.75 The story of a failed 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea by British and South African mercenaries.
|
 | Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton
Buy used from: $3.63 Perhaps the best book on the mercenaries of the Baghdad bubble era
|
Listmania!
