Nick Turse | The Nation

The U.S. military is stuck in a four-decade rut.

How US (in)actions have all but ensured a failed end to its presence in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon’s Afghan basing plans for prisons, drones and black ops.

What seventy downed drones reveal about the new American way of war.

What a busted robot airplane tells us about American empire in 2012 and beyond.

An investigation by TomDispatch reveals the outlines of a secretive training program in the Middle East that is funded by Pentagon, and wholly at odds with Washington’s professed aims of supporting democratic reform.

Meet the secret bases that make up the backbone of a new American robotic way of war.

When it comes to subjecting resource-rich, developing countries to American military power, President Obama is in the process of outdoing his predecessor.

Uncovering the true size and scope of the global war being fought by the Pentagon's secret “shadow warriors.”

How the President and the Pentagon prop up both Middle Eastern despots and American arms dealers.