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If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Government
Counterfeit
Guides
Your Future
Guide
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The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Relationship
Hollywood
Long
Military
Silent
Silent Films
Dates
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What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Closed Doors
Different Things
Doors
Africa
Closed
Reporter
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It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Connected
Construction
Engineering
Firm
Military
Turns
Africa
Large
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Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
Nick Turse / Journalist
War
Blue
Civil War
Doorstep
Moon
Real
Month
Civil
Real War
Seeks
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Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize the consequences of and blowback from our expanding secret wars as they wash over the world.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Covert
Expanding
Military
Secret
Picture
Wars
Forces
Operating
Recognize
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The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Deadline
Audit
Pledged
Undergo
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Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Afghanistan
Latin
Latin America
Military
Obstruction
Qatar
Response
Africa
Hurdles
Remarkably
Uniform
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The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Active
Boots
Libya
Missions
Republic
Somalia
Sudan
African
Central
Wars
Forces
Pledged
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Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Afghanistan
Islamic
Nasty
New Yorkers
Produce
Soviet
Soviet Union
Unforeseen
Consequences
Disastrous
End Result
Forces
Tendency
Unintended
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The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Apples
Boys
Mistake
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U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Combat
Dollars
Guinea
Piracy
African
Corrupt
Concerns
Confront
Effectively
Enable
First Place
Taxpayer
Tens
Tens Of Millions
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The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like Apple, Starbucks, Oakley the sunglasses manufacturer. Even Google, and a lot of big corporations like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Nestle, that you don't normally think of as defense contractors.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Big Corporations
Corporations
Defense
Google
Pentagon
Starbucks
Sunglasses
Ties
Apple
Civilian
Contractors
Manufacturer
Normally
Strictly
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You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Accepted
Constant
Decades
Digital
Half
Information
President
President Bush
Avatar
David
Bush
Disinformation
Fictions
Wait
Misleading
Promoted
Stream
Truths
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The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they established a long-standing pattern of dealing with foreign policy problems through armed interventions and also inspired the iconic phrase 'the shores of Tripoli' in the Marine Corps hymn.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Fighting
Foreign Policy
Marine
Marine Corps
Policy
Republic
African
Among
Armed
Established
Battles
Corps
Dealing
Early Days
Hymn
Long-Standing
Pattern
Phrase
Pirates
Shores
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The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.
Nick Turse / Journalist
Achieve
Down The Road
Military
Missions
Operations
Presidency
Strategic
Tactical
Troops
Understanding
Consequences
Obama
Attempt
Deployed
Elite
Exactly
Forces
Increasingly
Tight
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