My 20 Favorite Contractor Books (and 3 DVDs)

February 16, 2009 · Posted in Contractor's Bookshelf, Featured Articles 

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)

 




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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