The novel links private military contracting to the exploitation of Afghanistan’s reconstruction

Evidence

Just as Burnt Shadows is alert to those fragile human connections so easily shattered by the raucous insistence of group and national affiliations, so, too, it represents the confluence of economic and military globalization in its depiction of the operations of the private contractor Arkwright and Glenn. Harry and Raza end up working for this company, which runs a camp in Afghanistan serving U.S. military needs. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 424

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to the ‘gatekeeper of U.S. interests’ and private contractor thread in Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, where the protagonist’s Wall Street work parallels military arms.