The complex
Subtitle: how the military invades our everyday lives
By: Nick Turse.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780805078961
Subjects: Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations; Military - United States; United States - 21st Century; Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; Public Policy - Cultural Policy; Contracting out; Defense industries; Military-industrial complex; United States
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.
Notes: includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-275) and index.