Money for Mayhem
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7031-1 (ISBN)
The book follows private security contractors that take on missions in different countries with a variety of challenges. These include a former Singaporean commando working with a Chinese company in Kabul, a former British Royal Marine leading a Kurdish private military company in Erbil protecting BP’s oil, and a former Russian Spetsnaz defending commercial vessels from the Somali coast to the Gulf of Guinea.
Aside from the human component, the book closely follows the trends in the adoption of unmanned lethal weapons and it peeks into the future of weapons that can decide autonomously to kill humans. One chapter is dedicated to loitering munitions, better known as suicide drones, used by Israel and the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard for remote-controlled assassination. ISIS’s reengineered Chinese DJI commercial drones that are used for propaganda operations or as advanced artillery spotters complete the picture of the range of threats the world will routinely face in less than a decade.
First-hand data and intimate knowledge of the actors involved in the market for force allow a fully grounded narrative with personal input. Through this prism, the reader gains an understanding of the human, security, and political risks that are part of this industry. The book specifically reveals the risk that unaccountable mercenaries pose in increasing the threshold for conflict, the threat to traditional military forces, the corruption in political circles, and the rising threat of proxy conflicts in the US rivalry with China and Russia.
In a nutshell, the book gazes into the crystal ball to forecast what the future might look like in a world ruled by private armies.
Dr. Alessandro Arduino has two decades of experience in China encompassing risk analysis and crisis management, focusing on Belt & Road Initiative security, cyber security, private military and security companies, combat UAVs, and China’s political economy in Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia. He is a consultant to several organizations on security, risk assessment, and mitigation. Arduino is a principal research fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, co-director of the Security & Crisis Management International Centre at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, and an affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Arduino is the author of several books, including Securing the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Private Army. Protecting the New Silk Road, and he has published papers and commentaries in various journals in Italian, English and Chinese languages. He has been appointed Knight of the Order of the Italian Star by the President of the Italian Republic.
Chapter 1: Private Armies
Chapter 2: From Russia with Love: Mercenaries Fit the Bill
Chapter 3: Russian Grey Is the New Black
Chapter 4: Mercenaries' Russian Roulette
Chapter 5: Private Security with Chinese Characteristics: No More Local Guards, Not Yet Wolf Warriors
Chapter 6: Defending the Belt and Road Initiative from Africa to the Middle East
Chapter 7: How China Sees Its Own Private Security Sector
Chapter 8: The Evolution of a New Chinese Security Actor
Chapter 9: Turkey's New Janissaries
Chapter 10: Drone Mercenaries: A New Security Paradigm from China, Russia, and Turkey
Chapter 11: Drone Warfare: Lessons Learned?
Chapter 12: Drone Casus Belli
Chapter 13: Cyber Mercenaries: From Boots on the Ground to the Metaverse
Chapter 14: Two Opposites: None-Combatant Contractors and Jihadist Mercenaries
Chapter 15: Mercenaries, PMSCs, and the Future of Warfare
Appendix I: From Mercenary to Cyber-Mercenary: A Timeline
Appendix II: The Duma and Russian PMSCs
Appendix III: The Evolution of Chinese Private Security Laws and Regulations and the Data Security Law
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Dr. Sean McFate |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 562 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-7031-0 / 1538170310 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-7031-1 / 9781538170311 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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