Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza
Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction…
The Indypendent
Nick Turse
A Six-Point Plan for Global War
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet
The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops In late December, the lot was just a…
The Drone That Fell From the Sky
The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something…
Stop The Presses, Literally In Iraq
The first months of this year have been grim for free speech in Iraq. As revolts swept across the…
Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race
In the future, the power of magnetism will be harnessed to make today’s high explosives seem feeble, “guided bullets”…
Empire of Bases 2.0: Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?
The United States has 460 bases overseas! It has 507 permanent bases! What is the U.S doing with more…
By Nick Turse The military has enmeshed itself in American pop culture, infiltrating not only Hollywood, but everything else:…