Hired Guns Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom

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...

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Main Author: Cotton, Sarah K. (auth)
Other Authors: Petersohn, Ulrich (auth), Dunigan, Molly (auth), Burkhart, Q (auth), Zander-Cotugno, Megan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: RAND Corporation 2010
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