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Foreign PolicyFebruary 1, 2011
Future Weapons, Future Wars and the New Arms Race
High-powered magnets, guided bullets and high-flying drones are all part of the Pentagon’s battlefield vision of tomorrow’s tomorrow.
Nick Turse
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Arms SpendingJanuary 10, 2011
America’s Empire of Bases 2.0
How many military bases does the US really have around the globe?
Nick Turse
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US Wars and Military ActionNovember 17, 2010
Off-Base America
As prospects dim in Iraq, the Pentagon digs in deeper around the Middle East.
Nick Turse
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US Wars and Military ActionOctober 21, 2010
Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan
How permanent are America's Afghan military bases?
Nick Turse
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MediaOctober 14, 2010
Publish or Perish
The military may not be winning the Afghan War, but it is winning the Afghan publishing wars at home, with a striking percentage of books on the war Pentagon-influenced or simply Pentagon-produced.
Nick Turse
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US Wars and Military ActionSeptember 14, 2010
The ‘American Way of War’ Quiz
To weigh your skills, take the eleven-question pop quiz below, and see if you deserve to be a four-star general, a gun-totin’ mercenary or a mere private.
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
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US Wars and Military ActionSeptember 13, 2010
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SocietyJuly 13, 2010
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EnvironmentJune 17, 2010
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Books and IdeasApril 29, 2010
The Pentagon Book Club
A handful of recent revisionist histories of the Vietnam War are shaping counterinsurgency policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Nick Turse