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.
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The Changing Face of Empire
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Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military
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America’s Empire of Drone Bases
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Arming Mideast autocrats
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The pentagon’s Training Missions
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prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in afghanistan
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Shadow Wars in africa
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Washington puts its Money on proxy War
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How the United States Creates global instability
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What the U.S. Military Can’t Do
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Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the author/editor of several books including The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, the managing editor of Tom Dispatch.com, and a fellow at the Nation Institute.