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From Carter to the Islamic State, 35 years of building bases and sowing disaster
David Vine
David Vine, professor of anthropology at American University, is the author most recently of The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State. He is also the author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, part of the American Empire Project.
The Pentagon has spent the last two decades plowing hundreds of millions of tax dollars into military bases in Italy, turning the…
Outside the United States, the Pentagon controls a collection of military bases unprecedented in history. With U.S. troops gone from Iraq and…
“Are you monitoring the construction?” asked the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog. “Ah, sì,” I replied in my…
The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane…