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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Blackwater The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Author: Jeremy Scahill
Meet BLACKWATER USA, the world's most secretive and powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq and yet we know almost nothing about the firm's quasi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781560259794
ISBN-10: 1560259795
Publication Date: 2/15/2007
Pages: 464
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3.9 stars, based on 20 ratings
Publisher: Nation Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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It took me a while to finish reading this book. Liked it, plenty of information about the players of the privatization of the military operations in USA, the usual suspects, Vicepresident Chenney, Rumsfeld, the Bush administration. After reading it I can see USA has as much corruption as any third world country, and just a handful of people gets all the rewards, Blackwater is like a cult their members and top officials are religious fanatics as bad as the enemies they fight against for, their "christian beliefs" and patriotism as well as their powerful connections with the Republican party, makes them as dangerous as the "terrrorists" they are trying to protect the USA from.
Blackwater is a dangerous association growing like a weed with the protection of our own leaders!!
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cornetto avatar reviewed Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army on + 9 more book reviews
Great book...though eerie. It gives a lot of backroom history concerning the war in Iraq as well as military policy shifts and decisions over the past 10 years. It was extremely interesting to learn many of the things that have happened pre and post Iraq invasion. Also, Erik Prince and the Prince family is a very interesting story. All of it plays into a narrative of our military branch that no one wants to hear or believe. Military privatization is real and happening.

Though I think Scahill did a pretty good job at sticking to the facts, it's hard not to be angry and see tons of evil in Bush, Prince, Rumsfeld, and Cheney...not to mention all the other cohorts, appointments, and ex-government/now employed by Blackwater characters.

If you have an open mind and are interested in fringe government/politics/military topics...your gonna love this book.


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