Reviews of The Complex: How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

"With a combination of wit and number-crunching, Turse gives a multidimensional picture of the biggest elephant in every room: the Pentagon"
— Foreign Policy In Focus

"In his exhaustively researched first book concerning the extent to which the “military industrial complex” has infiltrated the life of the average American, journalist Turse starts off by documenting how many times supposedly innocent consumer choices support major Pentagon contractors then covers similar ground in greater detail…Many of Turse’s facts are purely economic, but some of them are astonishing. Who knew, for example, that in 2005, the Department of Defense spent $1.2 million on donuts in Kuwait?" 
— Publishers Weekly

“Turse's documentation of the interweaving of corporate and military interests is fascinating, no matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum.”
— Noah Shachtman, contributing editor at Wired magazine, and the editor of its national security blog, "Danger Room"

"Nick Turse has done something pretty amazing in producing an entertaining account of the almost limitless variety of ways in which our money is wasted by what he calls the military industrial technological entertainment academic media corporate matrix, or "The Complex" for short..."
— David Swanson, Washington Director of Democrats.com and co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition