CORPORATE WARRIORS: THE RISE OF THE PRIVATIZED MILITARY INDUSTRY(UPDATED EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 03360008B29493

English Summary/英文概要： Some have claimed that “War is too important to be left to the generals,” but P. W. Singer asks “What about the business executives?” Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new “Privatized Military Industry” encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored.

In this book, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering.

In an updated edition of P. W. Singer’s classic account of the military services industry and its broader implications, the author describes the continuing importance of that industry in the Iraq War. This conflict has amply borne out Singer’s argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the introduction of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises troubling questions—for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有些人认为：战争过于重要，以至于无法由将军来决定。然而，作者 P. W. Singer却提出了这样一个问题：企业高管又如何？如今，企业销售一直以来由国家军事力量所掌控的技术和服务，其产品从经过培训的突击队到战略性建议。这本全新的《私有化军事工业》包含了成千上百家企业，成千上万名员工，上千亿美元的营业额。无论是作为代理还是供应商，这些企业均参与了非洲、亚洲、巴尔干地区和拉丁美洲的战争。最近，他们成为了美国军事运营中的关键因素。如今，以盈利为目的的私有企业正在影响着国内外冲突的进程，但其结果却鲜为人知。

在本书中，作者Singer首次叙述了军事服务工业及其广泛的意义。《企业战士》描述了企业运作方式以及公司的各个基本类型，包括为军队提供战术指导的军事供应商，提供专业建议和培训的军事顾问，以及销售后勤、情报和工程的军事支持企业。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：“本书提供了针对美国政府在战争上不断依赖私有企业的深思熟虑的批判。五角大楼唯利是图的表现令伊拉克问题变得更具争议。那些出于利益的战争者的加入引起了许多政治抨击。”——《商业周刊》2004年6月8日

“军事与工业之间潜移默化的联手引来了许多批判。事实上，作为一名安全分析员，作者P. W. Singer认为，最近私有军事企业的扩散及其在国内外公共政策上的影响足以令我们瞠目结舌。在Singer这本全新的著作中，这些军事企业被称作过时唯利是图的演化，他们提供的不是武器，而是军事服务。”——《基督教科学箴言报》， 2003年8月14日

of the 2004 Gladys M. Kammerer Award given by the American Political Science Association
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Finalist for the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize given by the Munk Centre for International Studies and Foreign Policy Magazine

"Provides a thoughtful, engaging critique of the U.S. government’s growing dependence on private companies to wage war. Mercenaries in the employ of the Pentagon have made news with every new controversy in Iraq, from the ambush that sparked the siege of Fallujah to the prisoner abuses in Abu Ghraib prison and the raid on Ahmed Chalabi’s offices. The involvement of those for-profit fighters has inspired plenty of political vitriol, much of it directed at Halliburton, Vice-President Dick Cheney’s former employer. But there are some less-well-known players here, too: DynCorp, MPRI, and ICI Oregon, which do everything from database work to intelligence-gathering.”---Business Week, 28 June 2004

"The creeping military-industrial complex about which President Dwight Eisenhower warned us five decades ago has reached critical mass. In fact, P. W. Singer, a security analyst at the Brookings Institution, suggests that Ike would be flabbergasted by the recent proliferation of privatized military firms and their influence on public policy both here and abroad. Calling them the corporate evolution of old-fashioned mercenaries, Singer’s illuminating new book, says they provide the service side of war rather than weapons."---Christian Science Monitor, 14 August 2003

About the Author/作者介绍： P. W. Singeris 是Brookings研究所外交政策研究项目的国家安全研究员，也是有关美国对伊斯兰国家政策的Brookings项目的总监。他从效力于国防部长办公室及国际和平学会。Singer曾接受过《大西洋月刊》、《洛杉矶时报》、《纽约时报》等杂志的专访，此外，他还担任ABC、BBC、CNN等广播的专家解说员。

P. W. Singeris National Security Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World. He has served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the International Peace Academy. Singer has been featured in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, the Discovery Channel, FOX, NBC, and NPR (including a feature interview on Fresh Air).

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