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Coburn, Noah, author.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Participation, Foreign.
Foreign workers -- Afghanistan.
Contractors -- Afghanistan.
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Under contract : the invisible workers of America's global war / Noah Coburn.
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Coburn, Noah, author.
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Subjects
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Participation, Foreign.
Foreign workers -- Afghanistan.
Contractors -- Afghanistan.
ISBN:
9781503605367 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) :
1503605361 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Description:
viii, 398 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue : no small war -- Mercenaries, contractors and other hired guns -- Nepalis at war -- One blast, many lives -- Costs and compensation -- Manpower -- Two hundred years of Gurkhas -- "Who will be a Gurkha?" -- Through the colonial looking glass -- The labor of war -- A protective government? -- Of roses and revolutions -- Economic Ottomans -- Turkish engineers and other heroes of the intervention -- Building an empire? -- Detained -- Kidnapped -- Hom Bahadur -- The boredom of being trafficked -- Accountants at war -- Classes and gender at war -- Returning abroad -- When you can't go home -- Where the war went.
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