Hired Guns Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Auteur principal: Cotton, Sarah K. (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Petersohn, Ulrich (auth), Dunigan, Molly (auth), Burkhart, Q (auth), Zander-Cotugno, Megan (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: RAND Corporation 2010
• Sujets: International relations; Diplomacy; Treaties & other sources of international law; Political Science
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This study reports the results of a systematic, empirically based survey of opinions of U.S. military and State Department personnel with Iraq war experience to shed light on the costs and benefits of using private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war. For the most part, respondents did not b...