The Changing Face of Empire
Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare
Description
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.
Author Bios
Nick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch.com, a contributing writer reporting on national security and foreign policy for The Intercept, and a fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa, and Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Village Voice, and many other publications. He has received a Ridenhour Prize for Investigative Reporting, a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
More Info
Publication date: November 20, 2012
Table of Contents
One
The Changing Face of Empire
Two
Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military
Three
America’s Empire of Drone Bases
Four
Arming Mideast autocrats
Five
The pentagon’s Training Missions
Six
prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in afghanistan
Seven
Shadow Wars in africa
Eight
Washington puts its Money on proxy War
Nine
How the United States Creates global instability
Ten
What the U.S. Military Can’t Do
