Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Read Free Book Online

Colin
     
    Powell, Tom
     
    Predator spy drone
     
    Presidential Airways
     
    See also Blackwater Aviation; see Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
     
    Price, Jay
     
    Priest, Dana
     
    Prince, Edgar
     
    Prince, Elsa Zwiep (later Broekhuizen)
     
    Prince, Erik
     
    and Apramoff lobbying scandal
     
    background
     
    and Blackwater operations, policies
     
    and Bush administration
     
    on Caspian project
     
    and Chuck Colson
     
    and CIA
     
    on Cofer Black
     
    at congressional hearings
     
    on Constitutional oath
     
    on contractor brigade concept
     
    explores new markets
     
    and Fallujah ambush
     
    on independent army concept
     
    and Iraqi victims’ lawyers
     
    on Jordan counterterrorism training
     
    and Joseph Schmitz
     
    on mercenaries in U.S. history
     
    on New Orleans operations
     
    9/11 statements
     
    on Nisour Square shooting
     
    and recruitment of Chilean commandos
     
    Prince, Joan Nicole
     
    Prince, Joanna
     
    Prince, Peter
     
    Prince Corporation
     
    The Prince Group
     
    Prison Fellowship
     
    Prisoner transport. See Renditions of prisoners
     
    Private army
     
    Private Security Company Association of Iraq
     
    Private security forces
     
    appointed to guard Bremer
     
    deploy into Iraq in thousands
     
    and lack of consequences for lethal actions
     
    See also Mercenaries, mercenary industry; Security contractors
     
    Privatization of Iraq’s oil industry by Bremer
     
    Privatization of military and government services
     
    as bipartisan
     
    under Cheney
     
    expansion of
     
    expenditures to U.S. government
     
    mercenaries benefit from increases
     
    under Rumsfeld
     
    See also Outsourcing; Privatized war
     
    Privatized war
     
    effects of 9/11 attacks
     
    escalation of violence tied to profits
     
    and private army concept
     
    Rumsfeld Doctrine
     
    War Crimes Act prosecution
     
    See also Privatization of military and government services
     
    Prohibition of Mercenary Activities Act (South Africa)
     
    Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
     
    Propaganda war
     
    See also Sovereignty handover
     
    Prothero, P. Mitchell
     
    Psychological warfare
     
    Public Citizen
     
    Pybus, Sean
     

 
     
    Qatar
     
    Quadrennial Defense Review (Pentagon)
     
    Quick Reaction Force
     
    Quinn, F. Patrick
     

 
     
    R U Ready High School training at Moyock
     
    Radyuhin, Vladimir
     
    Rahman, Hussam Abdul
     
    Ramirez Sanchez, Ilich (Carlos the Jackal)
     
    Ramos, Daniel
     
    Rangers, former
     
    Ratner, Michael
     
    on Nisour Square shooting
     
    on use of paramilitary in natural disasters
     
    Raytheon
     
    Razzaq, Ali
     
    Razzaq, Mohammed Abdul
     
    RBCD
     
    Reagan, Ronald
     
    Rebranding campaigns
     
    of Blackwater as peacekeepers
     
    of Greystone Ltd.
     
    of mercenaries as legitimate, acceptable
     
    of mercenary as term
     
    Rebuilding America’s Defenses (PNAC)
     
    Red Tactica
     
    Reed, Jack
     
    Reeder, Edward
     
    Reeves, Phil
     
    Regency Hotel and Hospital Company (Kuwait)
     
    Reid, Richard
     
    Reilly, Robert
     
    Reiss, James
     
    Religious right. See Christian conservative movement
     
    The Religious Right in Michigan Politics (Bellant)
     
    Rendition Group of CTC
     
    Renditions of prisoners
     
    by Blackwater
     
    CIA program
     
    by Cofer Black’s operations
     
    to Guantánamo Bay
     
    by private aviation companies
     
    to Uzbekistan
     
    Republican Party
     
    See also Neoconservative movement
     
    Republican Revolution (1994)
     
    Rhyne, Jim
     
    Rice, Condoleezza
     
    Ricks, Thomas
     
    Ritter, Scott
     
    Rivas, John
     
    Roberts, John
     
    Robertson, Pat
     
    Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste
     
    Roche, James
     
    Roe v. Wade
     
    Rogers, Mike
     
    Rohrabacher, Dana
     
    Romania
     
    Romm, William
     
    Root, Elihu
     
    Rowe, Melvin
     
    See also see Blackwater sixty61 plane crash
     
    Rubaie, Ahmed Hathem al-
     
    Rubaie, Jawad al-
     
    Rubaie, Mahasin al-
     
    Rubaie, Raad al-
     
    Rudy, Lisa
     
    Rudy, Tony
     
    Rules of engagement of U.S. military
     
    Rumsfeld,