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Title: Last Line of Defense by Jeff Kaye, George Bernard Shaw ISBN: 0-7388-1346-X Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 14 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Inside the Military-Industrial complex
Comment: It is about time that we saw inside the businesses that drive the military-industrial complex. We know about the wars and Governments, but who run the companies and what pressures make the people inside them work for them in the first place.

This book attempts to get under the skin of the people who actually work inside the companies - as well as those who work in the secret services and elsewhere. It shows the pressures they are under and how they buckle under that pressure: causing them to go over the line between what is legal and what is right.

Bribery is common outside the US and why shouldn't US companies take part if those from the rest of the world do the same - at least that is the cry from within the businesses involved. This creates continuous tension within the book as it follows a business - Global Corporation - and its people from the Yom Kippur War in 1973 through the Iraq hostage crisis and the Iran contra confusion until just before the 1996 elections.

Who is right and who is wrong? Should we export defense equipment? How do we police it, if we do? What pressures are senior employees under when they have to compete on a world wide stage and keep stockholders satisfied? Where do Governments put pressure on those corporations and take advantage of them whatever they do?

This book has a really good shot at answering these ever-present questions while showing clearly the characters involved in a human way that shows the tensions for the first time.

Readable and tense throughout, it is an inside-out reminder of how difficult the problems are.