Author
Nick Turse received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Sociomedical Sciences. His Ph.D. dissertation is titled: " 'Kill Anything That Moves': United States War Crimes and Atrocites in Vietnam, 1965-1973 ", and it utilized the war-crime archive and historical texts to analyze the doctrine of atrocity. Turse is the research director of TomDispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute. He is the recipient of a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and in 2009 received a Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction. The Complex is Turse's first book.
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