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Nick Turse
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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2013
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The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
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2008
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11 editions
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Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan (Dispatch Books)
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2016
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2 editions
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The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare (Dispatch Books)
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2012
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8 editions
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Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Dispatch Books)
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2015
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7 editions
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Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare
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2012
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2 editions
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The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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2010
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4 editions
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The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Changing America
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2011
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2 editions
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Jacobin Italia n°4. Apocalypse No
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2019
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The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan by Nick Turse (2010-09-20)
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“Producing a high body count was crucial for promotion in the officer corps. Many high-level officers established “production quotas” for their units, and systems of “debit” and “credit” to calculate exactly how efficiently subordinate units and middle-management personnel performed. Different formulas were used, but the commitment to war as a rational production process was common to all.11”
― Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
― Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
“In Vietnam, the statistically minded war managers focused, above all, on the notion of achieving a “crossover point”: the moment when American soldiers would be killing more enemies than their Vietnamese opponents could replace.”
― Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
― Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
“The true purpose of the various directives, regulations, and pocket-sized codes of conduct handed out to troops was not to implement genuine safeguards for noncombatants, but to give the military a paper trail of plausible deniability.”
― Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
― Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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