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They call it the New Spice Route, an homage to the medieval trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, even if…
Nick Turse
Nick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch and a fellow at the Type Media Center. He is the author most recently of Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan and of the bestselling Kill Anything That Moves.
U.S. military documents tell the story vividly. In the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West Africa, an unmanned mini-submarine deployed…
It looked like a scene out of a Hollywood movie. In the inky darkness, men in full combat gear, armed with automatic…
U.S. military documents tell the story vividly. In the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West Africa, an unmanned mini-submarine deployed…
Recently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms,…
In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed…
American fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly.…
The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The…
As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in…
They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa…