Join the Z Community – receive event invites, announcements, a Weekly Digest, and opportunities to engage.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported on a proposal, championed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, to reduce the number of U.S. troops…
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.
Did the U.S. military use cluster bombs in Iraq in 2006 and then lie about it? Does the U.S. military keep the…
A secret air war is being waged in Iraq — often in and around that country’s population centers — about which we…
So you think that American troops, fighting in the urban maze of Baghdad’s huge Shiite slum, Sadr City, add up to nothing…
Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire — not only the “empire of bases” first described by Chalmers Johnson, but…
Those young years can be hard ones. The acne, the awkwardness, the angst. That may be one reason why, if you’re between…
Military recruiting in 2006 has been marked by upbeat pronouncements from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claims of success by the White House,…
The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day…
In the first installment of this series, I offered 42 names to begin what now seems an endless — and ever-growing —…
[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: What we were dealing with in Washington was a virtual cult of the presidency and that its believers…