Nick Turse: 7 books

A dramatic, true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best. For six weeks in the Spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter around war-torn...

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples."...

A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From...

You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim...

Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as “military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear.

Beinahe täglich fliegen unbemannte, schwer bewaffnete Drohnen ihre von der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbemerkten Einsätze. Vor Bildschirmen sitzende Krieger in US-amerikanischen Militärbasen, britischen und demnächst vielleicht auch deutschen Kasernen töten per Mausklick nach politischen Vorgaben....

Als am 12. Juli 2013 das schrille Signal einer Bootsmannpfeife erklang, versammelte sich in einem kargen Gebäude auf der US-Militärbasis im deutschen Böblingen Offiziere militärischer Eliteeinheiten. Auf einer Bühne vor einer enormen amerikanischen Flagge nahmen Captain Robert Smith, Kommandeur...