Books : Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355.3540973
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Label: Nation Books
Manufacturer: Nation Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: March 07, 2007
Publisher: Nation Books
Sales Rank: 239369
Studio: Nation Books
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror"-- yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned: On March 31, 2004, four Americans were ambushed and burned near their jeeps by an angry mob in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja. Their charred corpses were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The ensuing slaughter by U.S. troops would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts occupation forces to this day. But these men were neither American military nor civilians. They were highly trained private soldiers sent to Iraq by a secretive mercenary company based in the wilderness of North Carolina. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is the unauthorized story of the epic rise of one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the U.S. military-industrial complex, hailed by the Bush administration as a revolution in military affairs, but considered by others as a dire threat to American democracy.
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- This is less a book, and more like a looong rambling unresearched far left-wing blog entryMacbeth could have been talking about this book when he said:
It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
For a book about the largest private military contractor and the man who leads it, you would think the author would give a little more than 4 lines to the fact that Erik Prince was a SEAL. We get pages and pages about his grandfather, and not 1 word about Prince's 25 week SEAL training. Which is more pertinent ... Read More
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- Journalistic PropagandaI expected this to be in inside view of the world of Blackwater. Positives and negatives. An expose of the company. What I got was a journalistic propaganda piece against the neocons and Bush foreign policy. An antiwar diatribe that reveals the authors utter contempt for the Bush administration and the republican party. That's all fine and dandy, but as much as I might agree with the author on his attacks against the Bush administration and its policies, I do not see how this has much to do with an ... Read More
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- AMAZING!~This is an amazing story of how the worlds largest private army came to be. If you like the Shock Doctrine or Licensed to Kill, you will love Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
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- Mercenary? Does anyone actually USE the dictionary anymore?Let's see, why could we not have figured this out BEFORE buying the book? On the back cover offering their harmonic praise are (in no particular order) Michael Moore, Ali Baba, Michael Moore, Saddam, Osama, Madonna - you know these people.
Did I mention Michael Moore?
Friend, pass on this one and put 10 [...] in the Salvation Army bucket instead. Your conscience will thank you. The Evil American Empire will thank you even more.
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- Deserves ZERO starsThis book is pure, unadulterated crap. Jeremy Scahill is an anti-war, anti-military extremist trying to pass himself off as a credible journalist. I have seen many of his kook videos on youtube, and he really is a misguided little man. He plays loose with real facts, and often makes up facts to support his views.
If you really care about reading an unbiased book about our military and private contractors, do not waste your time with this garbage. It isn't even worthy of being used ... Read More
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