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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Main Edition
Author(s): Jeremy Scahill (Author)
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail
- Publication Date: 17 July 2008
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 560 pages
- ISBN-10: 1846686520
- ISBN-13: 9781846686528
Book Description
Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops, but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that, far from damaging the company, have led to an unprecedented period of expansion.
This revised and updated edition includes Scahill’s continued investigative work into one of the outrages of our time: the privatisation of war.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Scahill deserves commendation. ―
New StatesmanBlackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting. — Naomi Klein, author No Logo
An explosive piece of investigative journalism — Ben Myers ―
Shortlist Published On: 2008-07-04Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing
of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of
this sinister scheme.
— Michael Moore, Academy Award Winning Director
A powerful argument against the privatisation of war… exemplary… If the job of writing about “the rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army” seems mightily ambitious, it has been undertaken by just the right person… he’s the sort of writer who sets out the evidence and lets us make up our own minds ― Big Issue Published On: 2008-08-18
Revelatory — Aimee Shalan ― Guardian Published On: 2008-08-30
An exhaustively well-researched expose — Alastair Mabbott ― Herald Published On: 2008-08-23
[A] revealing study — Tom Widger ― Sunday Tribune Published On: 2008-08-10
