Title:
First platoon : a story of modern war in the age of identity dominance / Annie Jacobsen.
ISBN:
9781524746667
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Physical Description:
x, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
The Panopticon -- The two will wests -- The hijacker's fingerprints -- The biometric belly button -- Geography is destiny -- Kabul is burning -- Murder, mayhem, and consequence management -- Battle damage assessment -- Strong point Payenzai -- The god's-eye view -- Abdul Ahad -- The three ides -- Getting a platoon -- C-wire -- July 2, 2012 -- The man in white -- Double murder -- The clue trail -- True identities -- The genetic Panopticon -- The court of public opinion -- acknowledgments -- Interviews and written correspondence.
Summary:
At first it might sound familiar at first: a platoon of mostly 19-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the US Department of Defense's quest to build the world's most powerful biometrics database, with the power to identify, monitor, catalogue, and police people all over the world. Jacobsen's book is part war story, part legal drama, about identity in the age of identification. She reveals a post-9/11 Pentagon whose identification machines have grown more capable than the humans who must make sense of them-- and a people at its mercy. -- adapted from jacket
Genre:
OCLC Number:
on1196822759
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
