Nick Turse was born on 1975 and is an American investigative journalist, historian, and author.
18 Facts About Nick Turse
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Nick Turse is the associate editor and research director of the blog TomDispatch and a fellow at The Nation Institute.
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Nick Turse worked as an associate research scientist at the Mailman School's of Public Health Center for the History and Ethics at Columbia University.
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In 2001, while researching in the US National Archives, Nick Turse discovered records of a Pentagon task force called the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group that was formed as a result of the My Lai massacre.
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Nick Turse has written for publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, Vice News and the BBC on subjects such as ethnic cleansing in South Sudan, the US military in Africa, the video game industry, street art, the war in Afghanistan, and the Vietnam War.
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Nick Turse has reviewed books for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Beast, Asia Times, and other publications.
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Nick Turse has reported on the South Sudanese civil war that began in 2013 including an investigation of a government ethnic cleansing campaign for Harper's, and wrote a book on the South Sudanese civil war, Next Time They'll Come to Count The Dead.
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Nick Turse was part of the investigative team at The Intercept that won the 2016 New York Press Club Award for Special Event Reporting and the 2016 Online Journalism Association Award for Investigative Data Journalism for "The Drone Papers".
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Nick Turse is the co-author of a series of articles for the Los Angeles Times that was a finalist for the 2006 Tom Renner Award for Outstanding Crime Reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc This investigation, based on declassified Army records, interviews, and a trip to Vietnam, found that US troops reported more than 800 war crimes in Vietnam.
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Nick Turse asserted that many were publicly discredited even as the military uncovered evidence that they were telling the truth.
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The book is based on archival materials Nick Turse discovered and interviews he conducted with eyewitnesses in the US and Vietnam, including a hundred American Vietnam War veterans.
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Nick Turse makes it clear that such high numbers would have been all but impossible without the inclusion of innocent bystanders.
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In many of the cases the reported war crimes, most of them based on evidence from concerned GIs, are dismissed for lack of interest as much as for lack of evidence," and "Nick Turse's study is not anti-veteran, anti-military, or anti-American.
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Nick Turse's work was pointed out as partial, misleading, and flawed methodologically.
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Nick Turse has carried out extensive investigations of the US military's most elite troops.
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Nick Turse uncovered that in 2014, elite US troops were dispatched to 70 percent of the countries on the planet and were carrying out missions in 80 to 90 nations each day.
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Nick Turse followed up to show that elite forces like Navy SEALs and Army Special forces deployed to 138 nations in 2016.
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In 2017, Nick Turse wrote an article that revealed US special forces had already deployed to 137 countries by mid-year.