The Men Who Stare at Goats

[Dave Monroe]

Ronson, Jon.  The Men Who Stare at Goats.
   New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

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.

Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists, a highly
acclaimed international bestseller, examined the
paranoia at the fringes of hate-filled extremist
movements around the globe. The Men Who Stare at Goats
reveals extraordinary and very nutty military secrets
at the core of George W. Bush's War on Terror.

http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=505563

Shapter I: The General

http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=505563&agid=2

Cf. ...

PISCES
34; Psychological Intelligence Schemes for Expediting
Surrender, housed in The White Visitation; "devoted to
psychological warfare" 35; "concerned with a rather
strictly defined, clinical version of truth" 272;
Proceedings of the International Society of Confessors
to an Enthusiasm for Albatross Nosology, 712; See also
Twelfth House; White Visitation

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/p-q.html

White Visitation
34; former mental hospital located in the fictional
town of Ick Regis on the coast of southern England;
now part of SOE; location of PISCES; D-Wing still has
"loonies"; "devoted to psychological warfare" 35;
"they're all wild talents--clairvoyants and mad
magicians" 40; 72-74; described, 82-83; D-Wing, 230;
533; 627

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/w.html#white


		
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