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Blackwater
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army | Jeremy Scahill
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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.
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denbightaylorbeedle
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~ a couple years ago ~

This book is an inside look into the American government and its privately owned mercenary army Blackwater. Not a light read, and caution to some as the atrocities documented in this book are quite gruesome. What will you gain? A complete shift in perspective.

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Tdiroma06
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I‘ve only known about Blackwater on the peripheral but this book was a very insightful look into the private-contracting industry.

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ohyeahthatgirl
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The news has never been more depressing or more important. If you have read or been meaning to read anything by Jeremy Scahill, I suggest listening to his new podcast, Intercepted. (My new She Persisted pin is from the great @annemi )

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