Nick Turse - Archive

Pentagon Officials on Trump’s Deportation Plan: “Absolutely Insane” By Nick Turse, November 21, 2024
Israel’s Year of Killing, Maiming, Starving, and Terrorizing the People of Gaza By Nick Turse, October 10, 2024
The U.S. Has Been at War in Yemen for 20 Years, But Houthis Can Still Choke the Red Sea By Nick Turse, September 10, 2024
U.S. Poured Billions of Military Aid Into Lebanon. Now Israel Threatens to Invade. By Nick Turse, August 02, 2024
U.S.-trained Niger Junta Kicks Out U.S. Troops, Drone Base By Nick Turse, March 22, 2024
Henry Kissinger, Top US Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100 By Nick Turse, December 01, 2023
15 US-backed Officers Had Hand in 12 West African Coups By Nick Turse, August 25, 2023
Niger: When Is a Coup Not a Coup? When the US Says So. By Nick Turse, August 22, 2023
Burkina Faso January 2022: Another US-trained Soldier Staged a Military Coup in West Africa By Nick Turse, August 16, 2023
At Least Five Members of Niger Junta Were Trained by the US By Nick Turse, August 15, 2023
Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings By Nick Turse, May 30, 2023
Thieves Rip Off US Weapons as Shadow War in Syria Escalates By Nick Turse, April 03, 2023
Post-9/11 Era: One of the Most “Militarily Aggressive” Periods in US History By Nick Turse, August 12, 2022
“The War on Terror” Is a Success — for Terror By Nick Turse, January 07, 2022
A Convergence of Calamities By Nick Turse, November 13, 2020
Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Generation Z Rebellion By Nick Turse, June 09, 2020
U.S. Military Says It Has a “Light Footprint” in Africa. These Documents Show a Vast Network of Bases. By Nick Turse, February 05, 2019
Bases, Bases, Everywhere… Except in the Pentagon’s Report By Nick Turse, January 19, 2019
Commandos Sans Frontières By Nick Turse, July 19, 2018
Narco-Corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the Terror Drone Attack That Never Happened By Nick Turse, May 30, 2018
The Coming Year in Special Ops By Nick Turse, January 15, 2018
A Wide World of War: Donald Trump’s First Year Sets Record for US Special Operations By Nick Turse, December 16, 2017
Foreign Military Training (FMT): Can the Pentagon Win When Putsch Comes to Shove? By Nick Turse, August 13, 2017
The Year of the Commando: U.S. Special Operations’ Forces Deploy to 138 Nations… By Nick Turse, January 10, 2017
In Mali and the Rest of Africa, the U.S. Military Fights a Hidden War By Nick Turse, November 21, 2015
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Special Ops “Successes”. America’s Elite Forces Deploy to a Record 147 Countries in 2015 By Nick Turse, October 27, 2015
U.S. Special Operations Forces: A Secret War in 135 Countries By Nick Turse, September 25, 2015
Sex, Drugs, and Dead Soldiers: What US Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know By Nick Turse, April 22, 2015
Recolonization of Africa: US Military Missions Reach Record Levels After Pentagon Inks Deal to Remain in Africa for Decades By Nick Turse, April 15, 2015
U.S. Africa Command’s “Humanitarian” Activities Designed to “Facilitate Military Operations and Achieve U.S. Objectives” By Nick Turse, September 08, 2014
The U.S. Military’s New Normal in Africa: A Secret African Mission and an African Mission that’s No Secret By Nick Turse, May 20, 2014
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM): America’s Black-Ops Blackout. Unraveling the Secrets of the Military’s Secret Military By Nick Turse, January 08, 2014
The Terror Diaspora: The U.S. Military and Obama’s Scramble for Africa By Nick Turse, June 18, 2013
My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan By Nick Turse, March 19, 2013
“So Many People Died”. The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014 By Nick Turse, January 09, 2013
Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza. Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height By Nick Turse, September 05, 2012
Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War By Nick Turse, August 11, 2012
America’s Shadow Wars in Africa By Nick Turse, July 13, 2012
The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War By Nick Turse, June 14, 2012
“TERMINATOR PLANET”: A Drone-Eat-Drone World By Nick Turse, May 31, 2012
A Secret War in 120 Countries: The Pentagon’s New Power Elite By Nick Turse, May 26, 2012
Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in Afghanistan By Nick Turse, February 14, 2012
Twenty-First Century Blowback? US Military Bases Sprouting like Mushrooms By Nick Turse, November 17, 2010
Digging In For The Long Haul In Afghanistan By Nick Turse, October 21, 2010
Why Can’t Mainstream American Journalists Tell the Truth About the Horrors of America’s Wars? By Nick Turse, July 15, 2010
The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan By Nick Turse, February 10, 2010
Pentagon Hands Iraq Oil Deal to Shell By Nick Turse, October 04, 2008
The Shape of a Shadowy Air War in Iraq By Nick Turse, May 26, 2007
American Prison Planet: The Bush Administration as Global Jailor By Nick Turse, November 05, 2006
Bringing It All Back Home: The Emergence of the Homeland Security State By Nick Turse, January 26, 2005