The complex
how the military invades our everyday lives
1st ed.
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Word Count
72,500 words, Guess
Page Count
290 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecomplexhowmilita00turs
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780805089196
- Internet Archivecomplexhowmilita0000turs
- ISBN-100805078967
- ISBN-139780805078961
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- Goodreads2003639
- LibraryThing4791723
- Library of Congress Control Number2007032959
- OCLC Control Number163708073
- Better World Books9780805078961
- Open LibraryOL11276174M
Classifications
- DDC338.4/735500973
- LCCHC110.D4 T873 2008
- LCCHC110.D4T873 2008
Description
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 joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children and young adults, tapping into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is its twenty-first-century progeny.--From publisher description.
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