The Men Who Stare at Goats
Autor Jon Ronsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2009
An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious Goat Lab, to Uri Geller s covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of U.S. presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read if only because it is all true and is still happening today."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439181775
ISBN-10: 1439181772
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 134 x 217 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Media Tie-In
Editura: Simon&Schuster
ISBN-10: 1439181772
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 134 x 217 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Media Tie-In
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Descriere
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.
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.