America’s commandos deployed to 141 countries, and ‘criminal misconduct’ followed
A near-record level of global deployment by U.S. Special Forces last year came amid questions of malfeasance by some of America’s most elite troops.
Nick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch and a fellow at the Type Media Center. He is the author most recently of Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan and of the bestselling Kill Anything That Moves. He is a contributing writer for The Intercept, reporting on national security and foreign policy. 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.
A near-record level of global deployment by U.S. Special Forces last year came amid questions of malfeasance by some of America’s most elite troops.