Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War by Dina Rasor, Robert Bauman, Jonathan Alter (Foreword by)

Cast of Characters     vii
Foreword   Jonathan Alter     xi
Introduction     1
Blitzkrieg
The Private Side of War     11
Smelling Smoke     21
Where Are My Missiles?     25
Breaking Down     37
Rumsfeld's Army     45
Mission Accomplished
Dust and Desperation     51
Afflict the Comfortable     55
For the Money     59
A Different Kind of Suburb     65
The Green Zone     71
Digging In
Feeding Frenzy     83
Stepping into the Breach     89
The Berlin Wall     93
Corporate Cowboys in a War Zone     99
The Hired Guns     117
The Slog
The Other Side of the Force     131
A Different Kind of Black Water     145
The Replacements     157
Exposure
The Hand That Feeds You     165
Don Quixote vs. the Chairman     175
Legal Prayer     195
Slumlord of Iraq     201
The Empire Strikes Back     209
You Go to War with the Secretary of Defense You Have     217
The War Service Industry     231
Afterword     243
Appendix     245
Endnotes     253
Bibliography     263
Acknowledgments     267
Index     269