 I
Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me:
Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World (Hardcover)
by Trevor
Paglen (Author)
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Shown here for the first time, these seventy-five patches reveal a
secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified
projects are known by peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "None of Your
F****** Business," "Tastes Like Chicken") and illustrated with
occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects
represented here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified,
these patches-which are worn by military units working on classified
missions-are precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world
about which little is known.
By submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the
author has also assembled an extensive and readable guide to the
patches included here, making this volume the best available survey
of the military's black world - a $27 billion industry that has
quietly grown by almost 50 percent since 9/11.
Trevor Paglen is a geographer by training, and an expert on
clandestine military installations. He leads expeditions to the
secret bases of the American West and is the author, with A.C.
Thompson, of Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition
Flights, which the New York Times praised as "the real thing... and
not on the evening news." |
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