Civilian warriors : the inside story of Blackwater and the unsung heroes of the War on Terror / Erik Prince with Davin Coburn ; afterword by Max Boot.
Founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince in 1997, Blackwater recruited special forces veterans and others to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. As its reputation grew, government demand for its services escalated and Blackwater's men eventually completed nearly one hundred thousand miss...
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| Physical Description: | ix, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| 505 | 0 | |a My father's son -- The great dismal swamp -- Columbine, the Cole, and cancer -- The rise of Blackwater -- Inherently traditional -- Bremer and the business model -- The expansion plan -- Fallujah -- Blackwater versus the Mahdi Army -- The rules of the road -- Character counts -- The Fallujah families -- Nisour Square -- Cold and timid souls -- A nightmare and a miracle -- The downfall -- The next reinvention. | |
| 520 | |a Founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince in 1997, Blackwater recruited special forces veterans and others to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. As its reputation grew, government demand for its services escalated and Blackwater's men eventually completed nearly one hundred thousand missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Prince explains his original goal of building an elite center for military and law enforcement training and tells the story of Blackwater's rise and fall. | ||
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