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The complex : how the military invades our everyday lives / Nick Turse.

by Turse, Nick.

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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2008.

Military-industrial complex -- United States.

Defense industries -- United States.

Contracting out -- United States.

Civil-military relations -- United States.

United States -- Defenses -- Economic aspects.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007032959-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007032959-b.html

x, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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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