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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Moore, Adam, 1976– author.

Title: Empire’s labor : the global army that supports U.S. wars / Adam Moore.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019006498 (print) | LCCN 2019009151 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501716393 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501716386 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501742170 | ISBN 9781501742170 (pbk)

Subjects: LCSH: Private military companies. | Private military companies—Employees. | Logistics—Contracting out—United States. | United States—Armed Forces—Foreign countries.

Classification: LCC UB149 (ebook) | LCC UB149 .M66 2019 (print) | DDC 355.3/40973—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019006498

Cover photograph: 455th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron escort for third-country nationals and local workers at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, March 12, 2018. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Erik Cardenas.