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51account provides many thoughtful insights into the mindset of a special forces soldier whosought a life of even greater adventure.Fainaru, S, Big Boy Rules: America’s mercenaries fighting in Iraq, Da Capo Press, Philadelphia,2008.A collection of stories of PMC personnel in Iraq in 2006–2007 that provides a criticalanalysis of the dangerous work they perform. The author won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize forinternational reporting.Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Private Military Companies: Options for Regulation, TheStationery Office, London, 12 February 2002.This FCO Green Paper presents six policy options for dealing with PMC. These are: a ban onmilitary activity abroad; a ban on recruitment of military activity abroad; a licensing regimefor military services; registration and notification; a general license for PMC/PSC; and selfregulationand a voluntary code of conduct.Geddes, J, Highway to Hell: An ex-SAS soldier’s account of the extraordinary private armyhired to fight in Iraq, Century, London, 2006.A first-hand account of the recruitment of special forces personnel into PMCs and theirwork in convoy security in Iraq from 2003 to 2005.Geraghty, T, Guns for Hire: The Inside Story of Freelance Soldiering, Portrait, London, 2007.Drawing on his background as a prominent historian of the British SAS, Geraghty describesthe development of PMC from their origins in the 1960s through to the campaigns inAfghanistan and Iraq. The book offers recommendations for the regulation of the industryand includes an appendix listing British PMC.Gillespie, K, ‘Stabilisation operations deliver effects to win: The importance of effective,immediate and responsive reconstruction’, Australian Journal of Multi-DisciplinaryEngineering, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2009. (see note above)Glanz, J, ‘Report on Iraq Lists 310 Contractors’, The New York Times, 28 October 2008, accessed 5 January2010.Hedgpeth, D, ‘Blackwater sheds name, shifts focus’, The Washington Post, 14 February 2009, accessed 5 January 2010.