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 US Department of Homeland Security and in post-war Iraq. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. 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. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. This story is about why happened when a small group of men - highly placed within the United States Military, the Government, and the Intelligence Services - began believing in very strange things.
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