My 20 Favorite Contractor Books (and 3 DVDs)

As I mentioned in a previous post, I plan to reread all my contracting-related books and review them here. In the meantime, here are my 20 favorite books plus 3 DVDs. There are certainly more than these, but this is a good starting point. They are in no particular order and the links go to Amazon (no affiliate links)




	The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security by Deborah D. Avant  (2005)
	Contractor Confessions: Tales from Iraq by Russell Blair (2007)
	The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group by Dan Briody (2004)
	Private Sector, Public Wars: Contractors in Combat - Afghanistan, Iraq, and Future Conflicts (The Changing Face of War) by James Jay Carafano (2008)
	Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Open Media) by Pratap Chatterjee (2004)
	Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War by Pratap Chatterjee (2009)
	From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies by Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt (2009)
	Fortune’s Warriors: Private Armies and the New World Order by James R. Davis (2002)
	Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq by Steve Fainaru (2008)
	Highway to Hell: Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq by John Geddes (2008)
	Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (DVD - 2006)
	Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq by David Isenberg (2008)
	Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller (2007)
	Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton (2007)
	Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill (2008)
	Shadow Company DVD special edition Gerard Butler (DVD - 2008)
	Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing by Tim Shorrock (2008)
	A Bloody Business: America’s War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq by Gerry Schumacher and Steve Gansen (2006)
	Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein and Daniel Burton-Rose (2000)
	Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Updated Edition by P. W. Singer (2007)
	An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Spicer OBE (2000)
	60 Minutes - Blackwater (October 14, 2007) (DVD 2007)
	Escape in Iraq: The Thomas Hamill Story by Thomas Hamill and Paul T. Brown (2005)

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