On the day it's announced that Saddam will be hanged, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit a terrific new book, License to Kill, by Robert Pelton. We posted about this last month, highlighting the Contractor's Creed (gotta love it!).
Here's a lengthy book review on what the contractors do, who they are, how the work with the CIA, etc.
Here's a lengthy book review on what the contractors do, who they are, how the work with the CIA, etc.
AT...While some may still not have an interest in understanding the brave new world of private military and security contracting, they can no longer claim they lack the means. If the US intelligence establishment could connect dots as well as Pelton, Osama bin Laden would have been captured years ago.
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton. Crown Publishers, September 2006. ISBN: 1400097819. Price US$24, 358 pages.
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton. Crown Publishers, September 2006. ISBN: 1400097819. Price US$24, 358 pages.
