USA's Military Empire: A Visual Database

by Jimmc414 • 3 years ago

7 1 3 years ago

pretty cool.

i heard about this related book recently -- it says we had (at time of publishing i guess, 2017) almost 1,000 US military bases -- semi-officially, at least, but that are probably hundreds or even thousands of semi/secret bases/outposts that are not counted in the offical records (from the Pentagon, etc.).

https://bookshop.org/p/books/base-nation-how-u-s-military-ba...

  Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World

  American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a little-noticed part of the Pentagon's vast operations. But in an eye-opening account, Base Nation shows that the worldwide network of bases brings with it a panoply of ills and actually makes the nation less safe in the long run.

guess the author is an anthropology prof at American.

anecdote: pretty wild to think that a US military base in UK influenced or help create the Beatles:

https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2019/02/21/baselandia/

USA's Military Empire: A Visual Database

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