Contractors and War

The US military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet they are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the US gove [...]
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The US military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet they are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the US government expects the military to conduct both expeditionary and stabilization operations--with much of that transformation contingent on the use of contractors to deliver support to the armed forces during military campaigns and afterwards.
"Contractors and War" explains the reasons behind this transformation and evaluates how the private sector will shape and be shaped by tomorrow's operations. The authors, drawn from a range of policy, legislative, military and academic backgrounds, lay out the philosophical argument supporting the use of the private sector in military and stabilization operations and present a spectrum of arguments that support and criicize emergent private sector roles. The book breaks new ground by providing fresh policy guidance to those who will research, direct and carry out future deployments.