Meet Blackwater USA the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones & on American soil. Its contacts run from military & intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base a fleet of aircraft & 20 000 troops but since September 2007 the firm has been hit by a series of scandals that far from damaging the company have led to an unprecedented period of expansion. This revised & updated edition
Includes:: Scahills continued investigative work into one of the outrages of our time: the privatisation of war.