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Nick Turse
Nick Turse is the associate editor of TomDispatch.com. His latest book is Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan. He is the author/editor of several other books, including: Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa; Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam; The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyber Warfare; Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 (with Tom Engelhardt); The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives; and The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Turse is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. His website is Nick Turse.com. You can follow him on Twitter @NickTurse, on Tumblr, or Facebook.
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Views Friday, October 06, 2017 The Journalist and the Fixer We were already roaring down the road when the young man called to me over his shoulder. There was a woman seated between us on the motorbike and with the distance, his accent, the rushing air, and the engine noise, it took a moment for me to decipher what he had just said: We might have enough gas... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 29, 2017 The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll “I think that when Americans talk about the Vietnam War … we tend to talk only about ourselves. But if we really want to understand it … or try to answer the fundamental question, ‘What happened?’ You’ve got to triangulate,” says filmmaker Ken Burns of his celebrated PBS documentary series “The... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Afghanistan: A Military Mission That Never Fails to Fail Last year, an internal report commissioned by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency that oversees Voice of America and other U.S. government-supported foreign news outlets, examined the “perception of U.S. international media in Afghanistan.” This study, obtained by TomDispatch via the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 10, 2017 Counting Coups: Can the Pentagon Win When Putsch Comes to Shove? Winning! It’s the White House watchword when it comes to the U.S. armed forces. “We will give our military the tools you need to prevent war and, if required, to fight war and only do one thing -- you know what that is? Win! Win!” President Donald Trump exclaimed earlier this year while standing... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 26, 2017 A Wide World of Winless War The tabs on their shoulders read “Special Forces,” “Ranger,” “Airborne.” And soon their guidon -- the “colors” of Company B, 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group -- would be adorned with the “Bandera de Guerra,” a Colombian combat decoration. “Today we commemorate sixteen years... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 27, 2017 The U.S. Military Moves Deeper into Africa General Thomas Waldhauser sounded a little uneasy. “I would just say, they are on the ground. They are trying to influence the action,” commented the chief of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) at a Pentagon press briefing in March, when asked about Russian military personnel operating in North Africa... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 05, 2017 The Year of the Commando They could be found on the outskirts of Sirte, Libya , supporting local militia fighters, and in Mukalla, Yemen , backing troops from the United Arab Emirates. At Saakow, a remote outpost in southern Somalia , they assisted local commandos in killing several members of the terror group al-Shabab... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 19, 2016 Commandos Without Borders: America’s Elite Troops Partner with African Forces But Pursue US Aims Al-Qaeda doesn’t care about borders. Neither does the Islamic State or Boko Haram. Brigadier General Donald Bolduc thinks the same way. “[T]errorists, criminals, and non-state actors aren’t bound by arbitrary borders,” the commander of Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA) told an... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 28, 2016 The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady High above, somewhere behind the black glass façade, President-elect Donald J. Trump was huddled with his inner circle, plotting just how they would “ drain the swamp ” and remake Washington, perhaps the world. On the street far below, inside a warren of metal fencing surrounded by hefty concrete... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Trump's America and the Dismal Tide “So is he going to win?” The question washed over me as I slumped in my hard plastic chair. I had passed the day walking through a town where most homes lay in ruins and human remains were strewn across a field, a day spent looking over my shoulder for soldiers and melting in the 110-degree heat... Read more |