Slideshow: A Bloody Business(merc's in Iraq)

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A scruffy-faced Scott Schneider, director of Crescent Security, supervises unloading weapons at the “sandpit” storage yard in Safwan, Iraq. Schneider is a consummate professional, insisting his team work with the efficiency and discipline of a top-notch military unit.





“Retired army colonel Schumacher polishes the public image of private wartime contractors in this informative, if relentlessly glowing, account of these ‘unrecognized and unappreciated patriots’ in Iraq and Kuwait ... Schumacher writes with a keen sense of justice and empathy as he recounts the harrowing tales of these contractors-for-hire.”
Publishers Weekly

“An exciting and balanced view of the use of war zone contractors in Iraq. Highly recommended.”
Military Illustrated (UK)