Complex How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

Name: Complex How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
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ISBN: 9780805078961

ISBN-10: 0805078967

ISBN-13: 9780805078961

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nick Turse

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A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life--a real-world "Matrix "come alive Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction: A Day in the Life



Kicking it Old School



The Iron Triangle



The Military-Academic Complex



The Military-Petroleum Complex



Global Landlord



Today's Corporate Bedfellows



Starbucks Goes to Gitmo, iPods in iRaq



These Boots Are Made for Killing



A Sneak Peek at the Military-Telecom Complex



The Military-Doughnut Complex



The High Life



How the Waste Was Won



La Dolce Vita War on Terror



That's Entertainment



Six Billion Movies and No Separation



A Virtual World of War



Pimp My Pentagon



The Complex Goes Recruiting



An Army of (No) One



The Militarization of MySpace



The Dirty Dozen



The Mad, Mad World of the Military



The Pentagon Goes Golfing



Patriotic Pork



Stars and Hype



The Military-Corporate-Conference Complex



Weaponizing the Future



Living Weapons Labs



The Wild Weapons of DARPA



Captain DARPAmerica



Baghdad, 2025



Complex Conclusions



The Homeland Security State


Bibliographic Essay


Acknowledgments


Index