the men who stare at goats by jon ronson

Just when you thought every possible conspiracy theory had been exhausted by The X-Files or The Da Vinci Code, along comes The Men Who Stare at Goats. 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. 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. Department of Homeland Security and in postwar Iraq. 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. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror. 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.Įntrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. From the bestselling author of Them: Adventures with Extremists, the 'hilarious and unsettling' ( The Boston Globe) true story about what happened when a small group of men-highly placed within the US military, government, and intelligence services-began believing in very strange things.

The men who stare at goats by jon ronson