Hired Guns

This study reports the results of a systematic, empirically based survey of opinions of U.S. military and State Department personnel with Iraq war experience to shed light on the costs and benefits of using private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war. For the most part, respondents did not b...

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Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Cotton, Sarah K., Petersohn, Ulrich, Dunigan, Molly, Burkhart, Q, Zander-Cotugno, Megan
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Hired Guns
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