Nick Turse is the Managing Editor of TomDispatch.com and a fellow at the Type Media Center. His latest book is 'Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan' (2016). He is the author/editor of several other books, including: 'Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S.
Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries.
Niger was, in fact, the last major bastion of American military influence in the West African Sahel.Niger’s junta is pursuing another such path, attempting to end an American forever war in one small corner of the world—doing what President Biden pledged but failed to do. Such setbacks there are just the latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats that have come to typify America’s Global War on Terror. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, U.S.
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