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Betraying our troops : the destructive results of privatizing war / Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman.

by Rasor, Dina, 1956-

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

United States. Army -- Supplies and stores -- History -- 21st century.

United States. Army -- Transportation -- History -- 21st century.

Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Logistics -- United States.

Privatization -- United States.

Contracting out -- United States.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2007000063-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2007000063-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007000063-t.html

xiii, 274 p. ; 28 cm.

Pt.1. Blitzkrieg -- The private side of war -- Smelling smoke -- Where are my missiles? -- Breaking down -- Rumsfeld's Army -- Pt. 2. Mission accomplished -- Dust and desperation -- Afflict the comfortable -- For the money -- A different kind of suburb -- The green zone -- Pt. 3. Digging in -- Feeding frenzy -- Stepping into the breach -- The Berlin Wall -- Corporate cowboys in a war zone -- The hired guns -- Pt. 4. The slog -- The other side of the force -- A different kind of black water -- The replacements -- Pt. 5. Exposure -- The hand that feeds you -- Don Quixote vs. the chairman -- Legal prayer -- Slumlord of Iraq -- The empire strikes back -- You go to war with the secretary of defense you have -- The war service industry.

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