The modern mercenary : private armies and what they mean for world order /
It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contr...
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Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Peace through profit motive?
- Understanding the private military industry
- A co-dependency problem
- How did we get here?
- Why private armies have returned
- The murky side of private force
- The modern world order: a brief history
- Neomedievalism
- Neomedieval warfare
- Military enterprisers in Liberia: building better armies
- Mercenaries in Somalia: a neomedieval tale
- Medieval modernity.
