Nick turse
Nick Turse is a fellow at Type Media Center, an investigative reporter, the managing editor TomDispatch, the co-founder of Dispatch Books, and a contributing writer at The Intercept. He is the author or co-author of seven books, most recently Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan, which was a finalist for the 2016 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award, and the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, which received a 2014 American Book Award.
Turse’s work, alone and in collaboration, has been recognized with a number of honors including a Ridenhour Prize for Investigative Reporting, a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, an I.F. Stone “Izzy” Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Journalism, a New York Press Club Award for Special Event Reporting, and an Editor & Publisher “Eppy” Award for Best Investigative Feature, among others.
Turse has also received an Ochberg Fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Writer’s Residency in Marfa, Texas. He has previously been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War. He has a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.
Recent Work
In West African Coronavirus Hotspot, War has Left 700,000 Homeless and Exposed
Burkina Faso has endured poverty, drought, hunger, and coups. Now experts fear that COVID-19 could decimate entire settlements.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
Donald Trump Says America’s Ventilator Shortage was “Unforeseen.” Nothing Coule be Further from the Truth
In recent days, Trump has defended his administration against the suggestion that the government is failing to secure enough ventilators.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
Italy’s Coronavirus Nightmare Could Happen in U.S. Within Days or Weeks, Ex-CDC Chief Says
The Italian health care system is buckling under the weight of the pandemic.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
America’s Commandos Deployed to 141 Countries
And “criminal misconduct” followed.
By Nick Turse in TomDispatch.
U.S. Airstrike In Somalia Killed Two Civilians, Relatives Say
A U.S. airstrike targeting al-Shabab militants in Somalia last week killed a child and an elderly man, according to relatives of the dead and a Somali lawmaker.
By Nick Turse and Amanda Sperber in The Intercept.
Pentagon’s Own Map of U.S. Bases in Africa Contradict Its Claims of “Light” Footprint
Last month, about a dozen al-Shabab fighters infiltrated the perimeter of a military base in Manda Bay, Kenya.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
New Data Shows the U.S. Military Is Severely Undercounting Civilian Casualties in Somalia
During the first six months of 2019 alone, U.S. Africa Command tracked seven reports of American and allied attacks in Somalia that allegedly killed or wounded at least 18 civilians.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
Report: U.S. Military Rarely Visits Bomb Sites or Talks to Survivors When Investigating Civilian Deaths
U.S. standard practice when it comes to collecting testimony may be even more troubling.
By Nick Turse in The Intercept.
Trump Is Close to Committing a Massive War Crime in Afghanistan
President Trump’s reckless threats to escalate the Afghan War could lead to the killing of tens of millions of civilians.
By Nick Turse in The Nation.
How This Pastor of a Megachurch Is Fueling Ebola Conspiracy Theories
Pastor Jules Mulindwa runs a rollicking Congolese megachurch complete with flashing lights and a live band.
By Nick Turse in Time.
Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead
For six weeks in the Spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter around war-torn South Sudan talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and internally displaced persons–people whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In fast-paced and dramatic fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable.
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead isn’t about combat, it’s about the human condition, about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, about death, life, and the crimes of war in the newest nation on earth.
Tomorrow's Battlefield
You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today.” In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking true story of the U.S. military’s spreading secret wars in Africa.
Kill Anything That Moves
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few “bad apples.” But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to “kill anything that moves.”
Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called “a My Lai a month.” Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.