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Halliburton’s Military is the first booklet showing, in shocking aspect, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its essential role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. job in Iraq—without Halliburton there may be no war or job—to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its employees in Baghdad, Halliburton’s Military is a damaging bestiary of corporate and business malfeasance and political cronyism. Pratap Chatterjee—one of the world’s leading specialists on corporate offense, fraud, and problem—shows how Halliburton earned and then lost its deals in Iraq, what Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have for it, and who the company paid in the U.S. Congress. He brings us inside the Pentagon conferences, where Cheney and Rumsfeld made a decision to send Halliburton to Iraq—as well as much other hot-spots, including Somalia, Yugoslavia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and, lately, New Orleans. He trips to Dubai, where Halliburton has moved its headquarters, and exposes the company’s freewheeling ways: professionals leading the high life, bribes, graft, skimming, just offshore subsidiaries, and the whole arsenal of fraudulence. Finally, Chatterjee unveils the individuals costs of the privatization of American military affairs, which is sustained almost totally by low-paid unskilled UNDER-DEVELOPED staff who work in extremely dangerous conditions without the labor safeguard. Halliburton’s Military is a hair-raising exposé of 1 of the world’s most lethal organizations, essential reading for anyone worried about the nexus of private companies, government, and war.