The Men Who Stare At Goats May 2026

To the astonishment of rational officers, the Army brass didn't laugh Channon out of the Pentagon. They funded it. The unit was known as the "Remote Viewing" program, later codenamed Project Stargate , based out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Reviewers often compare its deadpan, absurd humor to the Coen Brothers or classics like Dr. Strangelove and Catch-22 . The Men Who Stare At Goats

Theoretical training for soldiers to walk through walls or become invisible to the naked eye. To the astonishment of rational officers, the Army

Written by British journalist Jon Ronson, the book is an investigative piece that explores the bizarre, "so-insane-it-could-be-true" history of the . Ronson tracks down former military officers who claim they were trained to be "Warrior Monks"—super-soldiers capable of: Reviewers often compare its deadpan, absurd humor to

The Men Who Stare at Goats didn't learn how to walk through walls. But they did teach us something vital: when the world's most powerful military starts chasing magic, the civilians—and the goats—better run.

The modern myth of the "Goat Lab" began in earnest in the early 2000s, when British journalist Jon Ronson met a man named Guy Savelli. Savelli was a former Special Forces instructor with a handshake that could crush bricks and a mind that believed it could stop a heartbeat. Over coffee in a London hotel, Savelli told Ronson a story that was too absurd to be made up.

In one of the film's most poignant moments, McGregor’s character asks Cassady why they went to the desert. Cassady replies: "To be super soldiers. To fight the enemy with our minds... Instead, we just fought ourselves."