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Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness
Molly Dunigan
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Description for Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 431.
At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing tendency to outsource missions to PSCs has significant ramifications for both tactical and long-term strategic military effectiveness—and for the likelihood that the democracies that deploy PSCs will be victorious in warfare, both over the short- and long-term.
She highlights some of the ongoing problems with deploying large numbers of private security contractors alongside the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804774598
SKU
V9780804774598
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About Molly Dunigan
Molly Dunigan is an Associate Political Scientist in the International Security Policy Group at the RAND Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a lead author on the 2010 RAND Corporation monograph Hired Guns: Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Reviews for Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness
"[Dunigan's] examples, analyses, and conclusions will be valuable for military leaders who work with security contractors, to citizens concerned about security contractor use, and to policy makers who decide whether to use them."
Major Herman Reinhold
Military Review
"Dunigan provides an in-depth analysis of a growing an unsettling trend, various states' use of private security forces. She ... Read more
Major Herman Reinhold
Military Review
"Dunigan provides an in-depth analysis of a growing an unsettling trend, various states' use of private security forces. She ... Read more