US Military PsyOps
Excellent extract in Saturday's Guardian magazine from Jon Ronson's new book The Men Who Stare At Goats.
"In the wake of Vietnam, the US military were demoralised and prey to some fairly crazy ideas. They thought they could train 'super soldiers' with psychic powers."
Contains amongst other things, attempts to walk through walls, bursting the hearts of animals by staring at them, Psychic healing, 'Project Jedi', the quest for invisibility and encouraging soldiers to walk into battle carrying a lamb and giving the enemy "an automatic hug" - sadly, Ronson concludes that all this could have led to the abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.