Truthdigger of the Week: Tom Engelhardt

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 21, 2013 At least three times a week, there is one place online where readers can go for the most comprehensive coverage possible of the workings of American Empire. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Shell Shock Lite

By Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch Apr 17, 2013 It didn’t take much. No battles. No dead bodies. I spent just three and a half weeks as a contractor in Iraq, when the war there was at its height, rarely leaving the security of American military bases. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Whom Did You Rape in the War, Daddy?

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Mar 19, 2013 On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a rare one involving American GIs that actually made its way into the military justice system. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

‘I Begged for Them to Stop’

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Feb 26, 2013 Try to remain calm -- even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt to constrict your throat and slow your breathing and keep some air in your lungs and fight that growing feeling of suffocation. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Nick Turse and the Real Vietnam War

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 15, 2013 Nick Turse's new book, "Kill Anything That Moves," is a ghastly revelation of previously unreported war crimes committed in Vietnam in the wake of the My Lai Massacre. He tells Bill Moyers how 15 years ago a staffer at the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., pointed him toward the "horror trove" of accounts that led to the book. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Kill Anything That Moves

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2013 Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wadecom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Nick Turse

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 20, 2013 The historian and author's new book about the Vietnam War reveals for the first time, in painstaking detail, the full atrocities committed by American forces in that country. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

An Operation, Not an Aberration

Staff / Truthdig Jan 18, 2013 Even as the My Lai massacre has become the subject of numerous books and articles, all the other atrocities perpetrated by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War have essentially vanished from popular memory, TomDispatch associate editor Nick Turse writes in "Kill Anything That Moves." Dig deeper ( 28 Min. Read )

How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

By Jonathan Schell, TomDispatch Jan 17, 2013 In Kill Anything that Moves, Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Jan 9, 2013 For all the dissimilarities, botched analogies, and tortured comparisons, there has been one connecting thread in Washington’s foreign wars of the last half century that, in recent years at least, Americans have seldom found of the slightest interest: misery for local nationals. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

A Failed Formula for Worldwide War

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Oct 26, 2012 Several times this year, America's war chiefs have assembled at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico to conduct a futuristic war-game-meets-academic-seminar about the needs of the military in 2017. There, a giant map of the world, larger than a basketball court, was laid out so the Pentagon’s top brass could shuffle around the planet. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Aug 10, 2012 From Asia and Africa to the Middle East and the Americas, the Obama administration is increasingly embracing drones and special operations forces to fight scattered global enemies on the cheap. A centerpiece of this new American way of war is the outsourcing of fighting duties to local proxies around the world. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )