Purchase
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson
The US Government spends over $400 billion in military expenditures. Real-life secret US Army experiments conducted at tax-payers' expense revealed in THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS.
Simon and Schuster
April 2006
272 pages ISBN: 0743270606 Trade Size (reprint)
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted
minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted
military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they
believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility,
pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly,
kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries,
they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't
joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on
Terror. With firsthand access to the leading players in the story,
Ronson traces the evolution of these bizarre activities over
the past three decades and shows how they are alive today
within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and in
postwar Iraq. Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners of war
with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Why have
100 debleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special
Forces Command Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? How was
the U.S. military associated with the mysterious mass
suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? The Men Who Stare
at Goats answers these and many more questions.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
|