Tag: Nick Turse
Nick Turse: Who Did You Rape in the War, Daddy?
March 2013A question for veterans that needs answering.
Nick Turse: “I Begged for Them to Stop”
February 2013Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
Nick Turse: The Hagel Hearings
February 2013The last best chance for the truth about a lost war and America’s war-making future.
Jonathan Schell: How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?
January 2013The atrocities committed by American forces in Vietnam defy easy explanation.
Anything That Moves
January 2013Recently unearthed documents and testimony reveal that the U.S.’s war crimes in Vietnam were far more widespread—and egregious—than previously known.
Nick Turse: America’s Nation-Building
November 2012The United States is in the midst of a tremendous building spree, but it isn’t happening in America.
Nick Turse: Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza
September 2012Despite years of talk about American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the number of military bases there has steadily expanded.
Nick Turse: Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War
August 2012The election year outsourcing that no one’s talking about.
Nick Turse: Obama’s Scramble for Africa
July 2012Secret wars, secret bases, and the Pentagon’s “new spice route” in Africa.
Nick Turse: The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War
June 2012Civilian soldiers, drones, and cyber attacks are just a few elements of the Obama formula for contemporary war.
Nick Turse: A Drone-Eat-Drone World
May 2012Drone technology has long been touted as the future of warfare, but should we believe the hype?
Nick Turse: 450 Bases—and it’s Not Over Yet
February 2012 |
The U.S. continues to pursue a war in which its supply lines are dependent on the good will of two edgy “allies,” Russia and Pakistan. Here’s why. |
Nick Turse: The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
January 2012 |
What 70 downed drones tell us about the new American way of war. |
Nick Turse: The Drone That Fell From the Sky
December 2011 |
What a busted robot airplane tells us about the American Empire in 2012 and beyond. |
Nick Turse: Did the Pentagon Help Strangle the Arab Spring?
December 2011 |
Uncovering the military’s secret military. |
Nick Turse: Mapping America’s Shadowy Drone Wars
October 2011 |
America’s secret empire of drone bases—its full extent exposed for the first time. |
Nick Turse: A Secret War in 120 Countries: The Pentagon’s New Power Elite
August 2011 |
Investigative journalist Nick Turse reveals the size and scope of the global war being fought in our name by tens of thousands of secret warriors fighting “in the shadows.” |
Nick Turse: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?: How the President and the Pentagon Prop Up Both Middle Eastern Despots and American Arms Dealers
May 2011 |
The Pentagon is leaning ever more heavily on rich rulers in the Arab world to prop up the military-corporate complex at home. |
Nick Turse: Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?
January 2011 |
In a WikiLeaks world where almost all information is a click away, nobody knows the answer to one seemingly simple question: Does the United States really have more than one thousand military bases across the globe? |
Nick Turse: Twenty-First Century Blowback?: As Prospects Dim in Iraq, the Pentagon Digs in Deeper Around the Middle East
November 2010 |
While American infrastructure crumbles at home, new construction continues in oil-rich kingdoms, sultanates, and emirates there, courtesy of the Pentagon. |
Nick Turse: Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan
October 2010 |
How the proliferation of forward operating bases in Afghanistan signal no end in sight for the nine-year-long war. |
Nick Turse: Publish or Perish: Getting a Read on American War
October 2010War-fighting handbooks are in. Gimmick covers designed for the warzone are in. Analysis about whether to fight such wars, investigation of the true costs of war to those most affected, plans to end bloody costly wars: all definitely out.
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: The American Way of War Quiz: This Was the War Month That Was (Believe It or Not)
September 2010The first TomDispatch American Way of War Quiz. Pit your wits against the best the Pentagon has to offer.
Nick Turse: How Much “Success” Can Afghans Stand?: The American War and Afghanistan’s Civilians
September 2010American leaders have hailed the way Afghans are supposedly benefiting from the U.S. role in their country. But are they? Almost nine years of U.S. occupation has taken the country from unbearably dismal to something markedly poorer.
Nick Turse: Death on Your Doorstep: What Sebastian Junger and Restrepo Won’t Tell You About War
July 2010If Americans care only sparingly for their paid, professional soldiers…they care even less about Afghan civilians. That’s why they don’t understand war. And that’s why they’ll think that the essence of war is what they’re seeing as they sit in the dark and watch Restrepo.
Nick Turse: Kick Ass or Buy Gas?: How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP’s Disaster Through the Pentagon
June 2010Even as the tar balls hit Gulf beaches, American tax dollars are subsidizing BP, and the U.S. military continues to carry on a major business partnership with the company, despite its disastrous environmental record.
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: An American World of War: What to Watch for in 2010
January 2010For Americans, 2010 could be the year of the assassin.
