Big boy rules : America's mercenaries fighting in Iraq / Steve Fainaru.
Fainaru, Steve.
2008
DS79.76 .F256 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Big boy rules : America's mercenaries fighting in Iraq / Steve Fainaru.
Author Fainaru, Steve.
ISBN 9780306817434
0306817438
Publication Details [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, c2008.
Language English
Description xvii, 254 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number DS79.76 .F256 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.3/540973
Summary The work that nearly 100,000 armed men do alongside the overworked military during the Iraq war as "security contractors" is examined in a gritty account of the lives of these mercenaries, their dangerous assignments, and their motivation for doing what they do.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 235) and index.
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Prologue: On the border
Social studies, inc.
I want to kill somebody today
The last train
We protect the military
The stories you tell
Now you are going to die
Your blood
Scope of authority: God
Hostage affairs
Balckrwatey for special security
Faith that looks through death
Epilogue: The book of wisdom.

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