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The Men Who Stare At Goats
by Jon Ronson
Description:
Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, andperhaps most chillinglykill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really werent joking. Whats more, theyre backand theyre fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious Goat Lab, to Uri Gellers 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 readif only because it is all true and is still happening today.
About The Author
Jon Ronson says- Most of all, I suppose, I write about mysterious worlds. I write about them in as human a way as I can. These worlds have included powerful secret societies like Bohemian Grove and The Bilderberg Group (I infiltrated them in my book Them), extremist communities – Islamic militants, politically correct Klansmen (also in Them), people who believe the world is ruled by 12-foot shape-shifting lizards (Them), and Military Intelligence chiefs who believe it possibe to pass through walls and kill goats just by staring at them (The Men Who Stare At Goats). In Goats, I also look at how these crazy ideas have mutated themselves and live on in the War on Terror.
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