Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com. He is the editor of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Verso, 2010), the author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008) and has written for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Adbuster, GOOD magazine, Le Monde Diplomatique (English- and German- language), In These Times, Mother Jones and The Village Voice, among other print and on-line publications. His articles have also appeared in such newspapers as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The Contra-Costa Times, The Fort Worth Star Telegram, The Hartford Courant, The Indianapolis Star, The Knoxville News Sentinel, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Tampa Tribune, among others.
Wars of Attrition: Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas, and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan
Crossposted from TomDispatchRecently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as well as car bombs, the Pentagon was quick to emphasize what hadn’t happened. “I’m not minimizing the seriousness of this, but this was in no ...
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet
In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. The American military in Afghanistan doesn’t want to talk about it, but one day soon, it will be a new hub for ...
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Crossposted from TomDispatchAmerican fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly. What had begun as an ordinary reconnaissance mission was now taking a ruinous turn. In an instant, the jets attacked and then it was all over. ...
The Drone That Fell From the Sky
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil temperature in the plane’s turbocharger, they noticed, had risen into the “cautionary” range. An hour later, it was worse, and it just kept rising as ...
Making Repression Our Business
Crossposted from TomdispatchAs the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever deeper ties with some of the most repressive regimes in the region, building up military ...
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of ...
Crossposted from TomdispatchIt’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc of instability.” It involves at least 97 countries, across the bulk of the global south, much of it coinciding with the oil heartlands of the ...
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April 28th, 2012
Wars of Attrition: Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas, and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan
Crossposted from TomDispatchRecently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as ...
February 12th, 2012
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet
In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside ...
January 16th, 2012
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Crossposted from TomDispatchAmerican fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly. What ...
December 21st, 2011
The Drone That Fell From the Sky
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil ...
December 13th, 2011
Making Repression Our Business
Crossposted from TomdispatchAs the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the ...
October 16th, 2011
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in ...
September 18th, 2011
Crossposted from TomdispatchIt’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc ...
October 16th, 2011
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in ...
September 18th, 2011
Crossposted from TomdispatchIt’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc ...
December 21st, 2011
The Drone That Fell From the Sky
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil ...
April 28th, 2012
Wars of Attrition: Green Zones of the Mind, Guerrillas, and a Technical Knockout in Afghanistan
Crossposted from TomDispatchRecently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as ...
January 16th, 2012
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare
Crossposted from TomDispatchAmerican fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly. What ...
February 12th, 2012
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet
In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside ...
December 13th, 2011
Making Repression Our Business
Crossposted from TomdispatchAs the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the ...
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