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Critic Reviews for Shadow Company
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Shadow Company provides a pretty thorough examination of the unknown soldiers doing a lot of the heavy lifting there, outside the conventional rules of warfare.
October 6, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
Drawing a line between official and unofficial forces is irrelevant since both are paid with our taxes, Shadow Company throws light on that bottom line in the war on terror.
October 5, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Though it offers interesting stories, Shadow Company does feel a little scattered.
September 15, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review… -
Shadow Company is a lesson in how to get audiences who know little and care even less about the Iraq War to sit up and pay attention.
September 13, 2007 | Full Review… -
There isn't as much expos as you might expect in Shadow Company, but there's considerably more thoughtfulness.
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Shadow Company attempts to provide a balanced view of a potentially polarizing issue, interviewing historians, security firm heads, war journalists, and former contractors themselves (the Army declined).
July 5, 2007 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Shadow Company
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Mar 17, 2011"Shadow Company" is an eye-opening documentary about the history and current state of military contractors(or mercenaries, if you like) with a special emphasis on the Iraq War. For a start, this is nothing new which is how countries did business until the rise of the nation state in the 19th century, when soldiers were started to be rewarded with a sense of duty and patriotism more than money. After the white minority government was removed in Rhodesia, the white soldiers went to South Africa. And they were again out of work with the fall of Apartheid, setting up their own company, Executive Outcomes, in response. According to "Shadow Company," a lot of military contactors act as bodyguards and security personnel in potentially hostile situations.(For this reason, one commentator deems them as evil, since they potentially keep away things from people who might badly need them.) Their stock price, unlike most other businesses, went through the roof after 9/11 and they do a steady business in Iraq, even replacing some departing coalition troops, where an "accountability gap" also exists.(Contractors were killed in Fallujah because the insurgents thought they were CIA.) As some contractors testify, cowboy tactics are frowned upon, as training in the rules of engagement are provided, especially when dealing with the military. And mercenaries overthrowing third world governments is total fantasy, as the situation in Equatorial Guinea proved once and for all.Walter M Super Reviewer
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