Nick Turse

Nick Turse is the associate editor and research director of Tomdispatch.com and an Investigative Fund Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and a forthcoming history of US war crimes in Vietnam, Kill Anything That Moves (both Metropolitan).

Articles

Who Did You Rape in the War, Daddy? (Foreign Policy, War and Peace, Society)

It’s time to start asking questions of our veterans—hard questions—so that they're not shouldering the blame, or truth, of war alone.

Nick Turse

The Hidden History of Water Torture (Foreign Policy, Politics, World)

What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?

Nick Turse

The Hagel Hearings (Foreign Policy, Politics)

Today's confirmation hearings are the last best chance to debate the truth about a lost war and America's war-making future.

Nick Turse

The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014 (US Wars and Military Action, World)

When we will begin to learn the real lessons of Vietnam?

Nick Turse

The Secret Nation-Building Boom of the Obama Years (Barack Obama, Nation Building, US Military)

As the infrastructure of many U.S. cities crumbles, the Pentagon continues to pump over a billion dollars into military bases throughout the Middle East.

Nick Turse

The Failure of the Obama Doctrine (Foreign Policy, US Intelligence, War on Terrorism)

The US empire is a lesson in how not to change a changing world.

Nick Turse

Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza (Foreign Policy, Transitional Governments, US Military Presence Abroad)

Total tops Iraq at that war’s height.

Nick Turse

Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

The election year outsourcing that no one is talking about.

Nick Turse

The Nature of the US Military Presence in Africa (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

An exchange between Colonel Tom Davis and TomDispatch Associate Editor Nick Turse about military involvement in Africa.