• Harper's Magazine:  http://www.harpers.org/

Six Questions for Robert Young Pelton. Questions by Ken Silverstein, 7 September 2006: click here

Report. Licensed to kill. Shadowing our government's favorite arms dealer. By Ken Silverstein, May 2000 issue, pp. 52-66.

• Mother Jones Magazine and Motherjones.com. Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting: http://www.motherjones.com/

Security Contractors: Riding Shotgun With Our Shadow Army In Iraq. They've given me a machine gun and 180 rounds of ammo, and told me not to pee for six hours. By Nir Rosen, 24 April 2007: click here

Are We Better Off: Contracts With America. Never before have private companies done so much of the government's work, from homeland security to rebuilding Iraq. So who's making sure the public gets its money's worth? Why, contractors, of course. By Michael Scherer, May 2004: click here

The Pentagon's Private Corps. From Gaza to Iraq, military contractors are taking over more and more jobs from the military - a practice that is proving wildly profitable and terribly perilous. By Julian Brookes, 22 October 2003: http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/43/we_597_01.html

Interactive Feature: The World According to Halliburton: http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2003/28/we_455_01.html

Soldiers of Good Fortune. At a camp in North Carolina, a private firm called Blackwater USA is training the U.S. Navy to fight terrorists, taking the place of military officers who used to fill such roles. By Barry Yeoman, May/June 2003 Issue: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/05/ma_365_01.html

• Security Focus. Welcome to the online version of the official magazine for the Security Industry in Southern Africa. Now in its 22nd year of publication, the magazine has a proven track record and is recognised throughout Africa and internationally: http://www.secpub.co.za/sf.htm

• Soldier of Fortune. It focuses on news and adventure based on firsthand reports from all over the world. Our commitment to presenting the facts in their entirety set us apart from mainstream news sources: http://www.sofmag.com/

• Policy Review: http://www.policyreview.org/

Peacekeepers, Inc. By Peter W. Singer. June 2003: http://www.policyreview.org/jun03/singer.html

• The Progressive: http://www.progressive.org/

Mercenaries in Kosovo, by Wayne Madsen. August 1999: http://www.progressive.org/toc9908.htm

Mercenaries Inc.: How a U.S. Company Props Up the House of Saud. By William D. Hartung, April 1996: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0513-06.htm

• Time Magazine:  http://www.time.com/time/

America's Other Army. By Brian Bennett, 29 October 2007: click here

Victims of an Outsourced War. By Brian Bennett, 15 March 2007: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1599682,00.html

Report: Govt. Wastes Millions In Iraq. By AP/Hope Yen and Pauline Jelinek, 31 January 2007: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1583724,00.html

Idle Hands for Export. Thousands of Fijians are leaving home to work in Iraq and Kuwait. Their exodus could transform the country. By Elizabeth Keenan and Suva, 1 February 2005: http://www.time.com/time/pacific/magazine/article/0,13673,503050207-1023453,00.html

Dire Straits. Ships that pass through some of the busiest waterways in Asia are often the target of pirates. Is a terrorist attack next? By Simon Elegant and Kuala Sepetang, 29 November 2004: http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041206-832306,00.html

When Private Armies Take to the Front Lines. The security contractors killed in Fallujah represented a little known reality of the war in Iraq. By Michael Duffy, vol. 163, no. 15, 12 April 2004: http://www.sandline.com/hotlinks/Time-Private_armies.html

Soldiers for Sale. The Cold War is over, but with demand for military muscle stronger than ever around the world, hired guns are going corporate. By Adam Zagorin, vol. 149, no. 21, 26 may 1997: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/int/970526/business.soldiers_for_.html

• USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/

Private security contractors' role grows in Iraq. By Jim Michaels, 3 September 2007: click here

Growing list of wounded spurs questions about veterans' care. These are America's war wounded, a toll that has received less attention than the 3,500 troops killed in Iraq. By Chris O'Meara, AP, 23 June 2007: click here

Timeline of U.S. casualties in Iraq: click here

• US News Report:  http://www.usnews.com/

Road With a Bad Rep. The Army got the bad guys off Baghdad's airport route. Now, about the good guys. By Julian E. Barnes, 28 February 2005: click here

America's secret armies. A swarn of private contractors bedevils the U.S. military. By Linda Robinson, 11 April 2002: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/021104/20021104023164_brief.php

Have gun, will prop up regime Are military `consultants' a force for peace or mercenaries gunning for Africa's diamonds? By Kevin Whitelaw, 20 January 1997: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/970120/19970120006003_brief.php

Want peacekeepers with spine? Hire the world's fiercest mercenaries. By Jonah Blank, 30 December 1996: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/961230/19961230035180_brief.php

• Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/

Billions over Baghdad. Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, October 2007: click here

Iraq's Mercenary King. As a former C.I.A. agent, the author knows how mercenaries work: in the shadows. But how did a notorious former British officer, Tim Spicer, come to coordinate the second-largest army in Iraq—the tens of thousands of private security contractors? By Robert Baer, April 2007 : click here

Washington's $8 Billion Shadow. Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the "expertise" behind the Iraq war. By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, March 2007: click here

• The Washington Quarterly: http://www.twq.com/

Modernizing the Geneva Conventions. By Renée de Nevers, Spring 2006: http://www.twq.com/06spring/docs/06spring_denevers.pdf

Weak States and Global Threats: Fact or Fiction? By Stewart Patrick, Spring 2006: http://www.twq.com/06spring/docs/06spring_patrick.pdf

Sierra Leone: The State that Came Back from the Dead. By Michael Chege, Summer 2002: http://www.twq.com/02summer/chege.pdf

A New Concept of Business. By John J. Maresca, Spring 2000: http://www.twq.com/spring00/mareska.html