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Customers have mixed but generally positive opinions on the interviewees' claims presented in the book. While some find the personal testimonies and eye-witness accounts intriguing and engaging, others are skeptical of the reliability of these claims due to the lack of concrete evidence and Ronson's perceived bias towards certain subjects.

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Military Psychological Warfare

Customers have a mostly positive opinion about "The Men Who Stare at Goats" as a book that explores military psychological warfare and its use of mind manipulation, with some expressing amusement over its humorous take on alternate histories and military conspiracies, while others find it grim due to its documentation of torture methods and black ops practices.

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This is an excellent book about the shadowy world of the psy ops in the military.


Stubblebine is the chief of the secret military spying units and after banning his nose against the wall he thinks he passing t...  Read More


Brusso actually physically harms and provokes ronson, cutting and hitting him with the weapon and at one point hurls ronson acr...  Read More


One of the more disturbing cases studied in this book are cases of torture, where captured soldiers or people would be tortured...  Read More

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The odd thing is, is that the training and development of the program to condition human beings to learn supernatural abilities...  Read More

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    military, funny and good.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 2,366 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 10 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I watched a movie by the same title but it didnt give half the story that this book does


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Author jon ronson goes into considerably more than is included in the film


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Some of them come across as total lunatics while others appear to possess credibility


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The author talks about the story of a scientist working with the military at a base in new jersey the scientist whose name was frank olson fell to his death from 1⁄7 story window in a hotel in new york in 1953


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Shortly before his fathers death the scientist was given the hallucinogenic drug lsd


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The military story was that doctor olson jumped out of the window in the hotel because of the lsd


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I strongly urge anyone who reads this book to focus on that chapter about the death of dr


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The real interesting thing is anyone can be trained to perform this seemingly impossible task

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