war use

The 2001 anthrax mailings,which came right after the 9/11 attacks, triggered one of the biggest and most complicated investigations in American history. Sent anonymously from a mailbox in New Jersey, the anthrax contents killed five pople and infected an additional seventeen victims, disrupted the mail, and had everyone concerned that a second terrorist attack was underway. The answer to the question of who was responsible would take years, target an innocent man, and, in the end embarrass the FBI because of its flawed investigative work.

Presents accounts of how animals have been used in the military, on the police force, and in the CIA, including discussion of the use of homing pigeons during the Franco-Prussian War.

A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing German shepherd.

Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.

Tells the inspiring story of Sergeant Mike Dowling and his bomb-snifing dog, Rex, as they navigated the always-dangerous Triangle of Death region in Iraq in 2004.

Joining the flagging war effort in Vietnam after losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson rescues a wounded yellow Labrador during a mission and faces a difficult choice when the government refuses to transport military dogs back home.

A humorous and cautionary account of the U.S. military's use of psychic tactics in the War on Terror and other political agendas discusses the methods employed by the First Earth Battalion, questioning its soldiers' abilities to perform such feats as invisibility, walking through walls, and killing goats with their minds.

An account of unintentional, intentional and attempted attacks on humans using anthrax and other bacteria.