Outsourcing Security

“Bruce Stanley’s scholarly work gets to the heart of America’s inexorable drift toward contracted military services. . . . This book is a must-read for strategic-level military practitioners and their civilian overseers, providing valuable insights into the contemporary dynamics of raising armies for war.”—Stephen L. Melton, author of The Clausewitz Delusion

 

“Stanley’s hypotheses set down some rational benchmarks that policymakers should consider when deciding on whether and how much to use the PMC industry in future conflicts.”—David Isenberg, senior analyst at Wikistrat and the author of Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq
 

“Stanley is the first to offer a coherent theory explaining why the United States is increasingly relying on private military contractors, and he tests this theory exhaustively.”—Dan G. Cox, professor at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies and author of Terrorism, Instability, and Democracy in Asia and Africa