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Some have claimed that war is too important to be still left to the generals, but P. W. Singer asks how about the business professionals? Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until just lately only condition militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando groups to strategic advice from generals. This new privatized armed forces industry encompasses hundreds of companies, a large number of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such organizations have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. Recently, they have become a key aspect in U.S. armed forces operations. Private corporations working for revenue now sway the course of national and international discord, but the results have been little explored. In Corporate Warriors, Singer provides the first profile of the armed forces services industry and its own broader implications. Corporate and business Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of every of the basic types of companies: armed forces providers that provide troops for tactical functions; military consultants supplying professional advice and training; and armed forces support companies that sell logistics, cleverness, and engineering.This updated release of Singer's already traditional profile of the armed forces services industry and its own broader implications explains the continuing need for that industry in the Iraq Warfare. This discord has amply borne out Singer's argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the techniques war is completed. At the same time, however, Singer detects that the introduction of the revenue motive onto the battlefield increases troubling questions-for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human being rights, and then for national security.
