P. W. Singer

Corporate Warriors

The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

Some have claimed that'War is too important to be left to the generals,'but P. W. Singer asks'What about the business executives?'Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to...

Produktdetails

• Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Upd. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780801474361
• ISBN-10: 0801474361
• Artikelnr.: 23192467

Autorenporträt

P. W. Singer is National Security Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World. He has served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the International Peace Academy. Singer has been featured in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, the Discovery Channel, FOX, NBC, and NPR (including a feature interview on Fresh Air).