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Author Ronson delves as best he can, interviewing sketchy sources and conspiracy theorists, into the Army's highly classified, defunct (and possibly completely fictitious) First Earth Battalion, that in the early 1980s taught New Age techniques of telepathy to try to create a new type of post-Vietnam peace-loving supersoldier...who may just be able to stare goats to death.
Contrary to my usual procedures, I saw the film first when it came out back in 2009, and only just got around to the book now ...more
Contrary to my usual procedures, I saw the film first when it came out back in 2009, and only just got around to the book now ...more
It's hard to know how to take this book. Much of it seems like extreme exaggeration, at the very least.
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Having enjoyed his Psychopath Test, I thought I'd read the bizarre romp through psychic soldiers, remote viewing, and PsyOps real and imagined. Written in the same light-hearted style which it makes it very readable.
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Nov 11, 2010
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