The Golden Age of Black Ops
American people have consistently been kept in the dark about what America’s special operators are doing and where they’re doing it. Will the black ops blackout ensure that this continues to be a...
View Article2044 or Bust
Military missions in Africa reached a new record ever since the U.S. agreed to remain in the continent for decades. Yet militant groups have increased their deadly reach in the face of U.S....
View ArticleSex, Drugs and Dead Soldiers
Nick Turse shares a different interpretation of what the U.S. is “exporting” to Africa along with destabilization and blowback. Here is what the U.S. Africa command doesn’t want us to know. The post...
View ArticleThe Kids Aren’t All Right
The war in South Sudan has been a nightmare for children—many have been affected by psychological distress, others are at risk of severe acute malnutrition this year and hundreds have been killed. Nick...
View ArticleThe Child Veterans of South Sudan Want to Know
U.S. assistance and nation-building efforts in South Sudan have had anything but the desired effects either for Washington or South Sudan. What's more, President Obama’s gamble that looking the other...
View ArticleProblem Partners, Ugly Outcomes
Will episodic training with militaries regularly implicated in human rights abuses, militaries that overthrow their governments, and militaries that have consistently failed to defeat local terror...
View ArticleU.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations
These forces carry out operations almost entirely unknown to the American taxpayers who fund them, operations conducted far from the scrutiny of the media or meaningful outside oversight of any kind....
View ArticleIraq, Afghanistan and Other Special Ops ‘Successes’
With America’s elite forces deployed to a record-shattering 147 Countries in 2015, Nick Turse discusses how a secret military within our military has, in recent years, grown to monstrous proportions...
View ArticleDoes Eleven Plus One Equal Sixty?
In the shadows of what was once called the “Dark Continent,” a scramble has come and gone. Are there scarier times ahead in Africa? The post Does Eleven Plus One Equal Sixty? appeared first on...
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