![]() ![]() First Platoon reveals a post–9/11 Pentagon whose identification machines have grown more capable than the humans who must make sense of them. And about the power of point of view in a burgeoning surveillance state.īased on hundreds of formerly classified documents, FOIA requests, and exclusive interviews, First Platoon is an investigative exposé by a master chronicler of government secrets. About humanity-physical bravery, trauma, PTSD, a yearning to do right and good-in the age of biometrics, which reduce people to iris scans, fingerprint scans, voice patterning, detection by odor, gait, and more. ![]() Part war story, part legal drama, it is about identity in the age of identification. Department of Defense’s quest to build the world’s most powerful biometrics database, with the ability to identify, monitor, catalog, and police people all over the world.įirst Platoon is an American saga that illuminates a transformation of society made possible by this new technology. Their part of the story folds into the inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the U.S. ![]() ![]() The initial part of the story might sound familiar at it is about a platoon of mostly nineteen-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. This is a story that starts off close and goes very big. A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all. ![]()
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