What Did You Just Finish?

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > What Did You Just Finish?

HomeWrecker04: Nov 20, 2003

Pantaloon posted:

Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton. Already established as the man with the most 'sack in North America, he interviews the new PMC lords (notably Erik Prince and Tim Spicer) and rides shotgun with Blackwater contractors along the deadly Route Irish. An excellent blend of travelogue and journalism, it was informative and more than a little entertaining.
The contractors he interviews don't fit the the blood-and-thunder image of mercenaries, but are mostly former cops and military men who wanted a job where their skill set could be useful.

Just finished reading Robert Kaplan's Imperial Grunts. It's a look at the US War on Terror around the world based on impressions and interviews while being embedded with special forces and marines in places like Yemen, The Phillipines, and of course Iraq and Ahfganistan. Kaplan is a visiting Prof. at the Naval War College and writes for The Atlantic.

If you liked Licensed to Kill check out Kaplan. Just started his Eastward to Tartary and can't put it down.

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