Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army

New York, NY: Nation Books/Avalon Publishing Group Inc, 2007. 1st Ed 14th Pr. Hardbound. 8vo. 626 Pgs.. Fine in Good DJ/Good. Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill. Published by Nation Books/Avalon Publishing Group Inc, New York, NY, 2007. 1st Edition 14th Printing. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good DJ. 452 Pgs. ISBN 1560259795. Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the global war on terror, yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned: On March 31, 2004, four Americans were ambushed and burned near their jeeps by an angry mob in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja. Their charred corpses were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The ensuing slaughter by US troops would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts occupation forces to this day. But these men were neither American military nor civilians. They were highly trained private soldiers sent to Iraq by a secretive mercenary company based in the wilderness of North Carolina. This is the unauthorized story of the epic rise of one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the US military-industrial complex, hailed by the Bush administration as a revolution in military affairs, but considered by others as a dire threat to American democracy. Description text copyright 2011 BooksForComfort. Item ID 25421.