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Under contract : the invisible workers of America's global war /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coburn, Noah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Afghan War, 2001- > Participation, Foreign.
Foreign workers > Afghanistan.
Contractors > Afghanistan.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : no small war
  • Mercenaries, contractors and other hired guns
  • Nepalis at war
  • One blast, many lives
  • Costs and compensation
  • Manpower
  • Two hundred years of Gurkhas
  • "Who will be a Gurkha?"
  • Through the colonial looking glass
  • The labor of war
  • A protective government?
  • Of roses and revolutions
  • Economic Ottomans
  • Turkish engineers and other heroes of the intervention
  • Building an empire?
  • Detained
  • Kidnapped
  • Hom Bahadur
  • The boredom of being trafficked
  • Accountants at war
  • Classes and gender at war
  • Returning abroad
  • When you can't go home
  • Where the war went.