Patriots for Profit: analyzing private security contractors in the U.S. from a civil-military perspective
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Bruneau, Thomas C.
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2011
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The author proposes in this paper a new framework for the analysis of civil –
military relations in the U.S. and applies it to the use of private security contractors,
mainly in Iraq. He argues that the academic literature on civil – military relations in
the U.S. is not well focused as it concentrates exclusively on control, and is thus totally
marginal to the contemporary debates on the use of force to achieve national goals. He
illustrates this point by looking to the most serious national defense reform initiatives
from the Goldwater – Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 up until the current
major effort, the Project on National Security Reform. He then applies this framework
to the use of private security contractors (PSC) and finds that they are problematic both
in terms of control and effectiveness.
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Volume 1, Cebri
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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