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Title: Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein, Daniel Burton-Rose ISBN: 1859843255 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book, Very Interesting
Comment: This was a very interesting and eye opening book. The book is broken into chapters that look at different aspects of the current war / armaments industry. We get the full picture from arms dealers, armaments companies and their lobbyists to private mercenary companies. The author gives the arms dealers some extra mystery by introducing us to two of the more successful ones, both of which were ex-Nazis. We also get a who's who name run down of past government officials who are now employees or lobbyists for large arms manufactures. I now know where all the cold warriors go after they leave office.
The book really leaves the impression with the reader that the military arm of the government is running the rest of the country via the spending allocated to it via the budget. The author presented the reader with an armload of facts, and left the reader to make his own conclusions. This is not an anti military propaganda piece, but a good book with an incredible amount of information. One of the more shocking conclusions one takes from the book is the ongoing American policy of continual military mobilization. I guess this should not be that surprising given that it is a billion dollar business that has a vested interest in making sure the business keeps on coming it's way.
Overall the book was very good and interesting. It was easy to read and I got through it in only a few days. My only complaint is that there was no ending chapter, no wrap up - it just kinda ended. Other then that a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great militiary book
Comment: I thought this book was great.I think that Private Militiary
Compinies are the Futuer of warfare.I think America should train fomer Soviet countries against terrorism.I found this book very informative.It was great.
Rating: 4
Summary: War, Incorporated
Comment: Ken Silverstein's "Private Warriors" is an excellent resource -- I wish we had more journalists like him, willing to delve deep into a story and present just the facts, and leave it to the reader to connect the dots. Silverstein doesn't preach: he just offers an incredible amount of information -- all but the most diehard reactionary will find it persuasive.
He names names, and provides an exhaustive account of the ongoing American policy of permanent military mobilization, which was conveniently masked during the Cold War but which continues to grow after the death of Soviet Communism.
The book is broken into six chapters, each exploring a different avenue of the war industry -- from ... arms dealers to private mercenary companies, to the cynical use of military consultants to evade public accountability and oversight and, of course, Star Wars (these days referred to as the Ballistic Missile Defense).
What I was struck with on reading this book is how cynical and amoral the participants are -- they may be flag-waving Americans, but the brotherhood of warmongers really transcends nationality, which is probably a sign of the changing times. It's frightening and infuriating when you see the level of corruption at work, here, and the incredible success achieved by these individuals, and the degree of networking they engage in to ensure that American policy remains firmly locked on a wartime footing.
The only drawbacks I saw in this book was there was so much information presented, it was a little hard to keep track of all of the players -- I would have liked to see some graphs or lists to illustrate some of the points Silverstein enumerated. Also, I thought there ought to be a concluding chapter to the book, to sort of wrap everything up.
Get this book if you want to get a sense of why the "peace dividend" was a short-lived concept (I recall it being talked about for about two weeks, after the collapse of the USSR); I recommend it as a gift for anybody who wants a sense of what's wrong in American policy, and also for anybody too enamored of the status quo.
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Title: On Killing by Dave Grossman ISBN: 0316330116 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap) Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond by Michael Parenti ISBN: 0872864057 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Jeffrey St Clair ISBN: 1859842585 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine ISBN: 0595007384 Publisher: iUniverse.com Pub. Date: 07 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Addicted to War : Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism by Joel Andreas ISBN: 190259357X Publisher: AK Pr Distribution Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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