Nick Turse

Nick Turse is a contributing writer for The Intercept, reporting on national security and foreign policy. He is the author, most recently, of "Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan," as well as "Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa," and "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam." He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and Village Voice, among other publications. He has received a Ridenhour Prize for Investigative Reporting, a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Turse is a fellow at The Nation Institute and the managing editor of TomDispatch.com.

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U.S. Special Forces Expand Training to Allies With Histories of Abuse

Nick Turse

- Sep. 9, 2015

A shadowy Pentagon program to share elite skills with troubled security forces has expanded since 9/11 with little scrutiny. A thinly funded vetting process rarely stands in the way of training Saudi, Bahraini, Colombian or Chadian forces.