Nick Turse is a journalist, historian and author. He wrote The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives is a book about the United States military, written by journalist Nick Turse. It was published in 2008 in hardcover format by Metropolitan Books. The book describes the vast changes in the industrial complex of the U.S. military from the days...

and recevied a Ridenhour Prize in 2010 for his accounts of the Vietnam War. He is associate editor and research director of TomDispatch.com (a project of The Nation Institute) and has written for the Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Mother Jones, and The Village Voice. His next book project is titled Kill Anything That Moves, a history of U.S. atrocities in Indochina during the Vietnam War. Turse graduated with a Ph.D in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Columbine High School massacre

In the winter 2000 issue of the academic journal 49th parallel Nicholas Turse, then a doctoral candidate at Columbia University wrote of the Columbine High School massacre

Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12...

: "I propose that kids killing kids may be the radical protest of our age, and that Eric Harris

Eric Harris

Eric Harris may refer to:* Eric Harris , former NFL player* Eric W. Harris , businessman and Louisiana state Jaycees founder* Eric Harris , American drummer...

 and Dylan Klebold may be the Mark Rudd and Abbie Hoffman figures of today." Of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Turse wrote:

Who would not concede that terrorizing the American machine, at the very site where it exerts its most powerful influence, is a truly revolutionary task? To be inarticulate about your goals, even to not understand them, does not negate their existence. Approve or disapprove of their methods, vilify them as miscreants, but don’t dare disregard these modern radicals as anything less than the latest incarnation of disaffected insurgents waging the ongoing American revolution.