Джереми Скахилл — новинки

Американский журналист Джереми Скейхилл посвятил свое расследование войнам, которые ведут по всему мира США. Более десяти лет он посещал зоны боевых действий — в качестве журналиста программы Democracy Now он побывал в Ираке, Афганистане, Сомали, Йемене и др. — брал интервью у солдат, бандитов, джихадистов, жертв, и добытые им материалы стали причиной не одного разбирательства в Конгрессе. Скейхилл своими глазами видел последствия военной горячки, охватившей Америку, не однажды ему пришлось рисковать жизнью, чтобы написать свою книгу, ставшую одним из наиболее тщательно документированных книг по тайным операциям США, проводившимся в XXI веке.

В своей книге американский журналист Джереми Скейхилл раскрывает историю превращения обыкновенного охранного предприятия в крупнейшую частную армию в мире, основную деятельность которой составляет участие в международных военных конфликтах, и чьим главным заказчиком является государство. В Афганистане и Ираке Blackwater (теперь Academi) с особенной жестокостью расправлялась с мирным населением и занималась контрабандой оружия, что получило широкую огласку в СМИ.
Автор разоблачает истинную сущность и могущество параллельной частной армии, на которую правительство США истратило сотни миллионов долларов и для которой не существует ни законов, ни моральных принципов.

In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than…

It was the Mogadishu moment of the Iraq war. March 31, 2004: Four American mercenaries are ambushed in the Sunni hotbed of Fallujah, their jeeps set ablaze with the men inside. An angry mob drags their charred corpses through the streets, hanging them from a bridge over the Euphrates River. "Fallujah is the graveyard of the Americans!," the mob declares in front of the cameras. Within hours, the images spread across the world. The ensuing US slaughter in Fallujah would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts US occupation forces to this day. Who were the mercenaries killed in Fallujah and who sent them there to die? Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Founded by billionaire Erik Prince, the company has its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready, Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror"-- yet most people have never heard of it. It was the moment the war turned: On March 31, 2004, four Americans were ambushed and burned near their jeeps by an angry mob in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja. Their charred corpses were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The ensuing slaughter by U.S. troops would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance that haunts occupation forces to this day. But these men were neither American military nor civilians. They were highly trained private soldiers sent to Iraq by a secretive mercenary company based in the wilderness of North Carolina. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is the unauthorized story of the epic rise of one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the U.S. military-industrial complex, hailed by the Bush administration as a revolution in military affairs, but considered by others as a dire threat to American democracy.