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    Commercialising War

    War today

    Lecture 11
    Monday March 21, 2011

    PEACE ST 2BB3: Introduction to the Study of War


    Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

    1
    Outline

    • A new phenomena?
    • Military contractors
    • ‘service industry’
    • Disaster capitalism?

    2
    Wired for war

    • PW Singer (2009)

    • New York Times non-fiction


    best seller list

    • Financial Times non-fiction


    book of the year

    3
    Caterpillar

    • IDF D9 Bulldozer

    • House demolitions

    • Rachel Corrie

    4
    Shadow Company

    • Nick Bicanic & Jason


    Bourque (2006)

    5
    Blackwater

    • Jeremy Scahill (2007)

    • Widely praised

    • Heavily researched and


    scathing expose

    6
    Summary

    • PMCs provide a host of services

    • Do they have a role?

    • Legal frameworks?

    • What about the broader military-industrial complex?

    7
    Citations & further reading
    Amnesty Internation (2005) ‘Israel/Occupied Territories: House Demolition’,
    28 September — http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE15/048/2005

    Edward Said (2003) ‘The Meaning of Rachel Corrie’, Z Magazine, 26 June.


    http://www.zcommunications.org/the-meaning-of-rachel-corrie-by-edward-said

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    Image sources
    Pablo Picasso (1937) Guernica. Oil on canvas.
    Unknown soldier in Iraq. Date unknown. sourced from http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/
    some-interior-situational-sources-war-–-part-v/
    Carlos Latuff (2003) War 2. Sourced from http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/War-2-27832944
    Crimethinc (undated) War on Terror/Drugs. http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/
    Shaney Komulainen of Canadian Press (Sept 1 1990) Pte. Patrick Cloutier, a 'Van Doo' perimeter
    sentry, and Mohawk Warrior Brad "Freddy Krueger" Larocque face off. Remixed by dangerousbob,
    deviantART — http://dangerousbob.deviantart.com/art/Okarom-Crisis-79679086

    9
    Video Sources
    PW Singer on military robots and the future of war, April 2009.
    http://www.ted.com/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html

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