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For my new book, see: The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
An excerpt from The United States of War.
An interview about The United States of War.
For more information about military bases and war, my book Base Nation, maps, and other resources, see my site: www.basenation.us
A crowdsourced list of anti-base movements through time, including info about movements today.
For lists of U.S. bases abroad from 1776-2021, see my spreadsheet: https://doi.org/10.17606/7em4-hb13
For a major report and the most comprehensive list of U.S. bases abroad available, produced with World BEYOND War's Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger, see "Drawdown: Improving U.S. and Global Security Through Military Base Closures Abroad," Quincy Brief No. 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft/World BEYOND War, September 2021. The report's 2021 list of U.S. bases abroad, produced by Deppen, is available at https://quincyinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Overseas-Bases-List.xlsx
One way to learn about and join the struggle to close US bases abroad is the Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, which I help lead: www.overseasbases.net
Articles, Op-eds, Reports
"Drawdown: Improving U.S. and Global Security Through Military Base Closures Abroad," with Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger, Quincy Brief No. 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft/World BEYOND War, September 2021.
"Do You Want a New Cold War with China? The AUKUS Alliance Takes the World to the Brink." TomDispatch.com, October 21, 2021.
"Not Just about Subs, AUKUS Expands US Military Footprint in Australia, Too." Responsible Statecraft, September 20, 2021.
"This Was a Corrupt War to Its Core," The Guardian, August 19, 2021.
"After Years of Causing Destruction, the US Owes the Afghan People: Biden Must Pledge to Resettle One Million Afghan Refugees," Business Insider, August 16, 2021.
"Why the U.S. Is Trapped in 'Endless War,'" Big Think, August 12, 2021.
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars," Costs of War Project, Brown University, 2021 Update, August 19, 2021.
"Biden’s Refugee Plan Doesn't Do Nearly Enough," New York Daily News, May 20, 2021.
"175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration," Council on Hemispheric Affairs, April 22, 2021.
"Nine Ways that Drawing Down Overseas Bases Will Improve US Security," with Andrew Bacevich, Responsible Statecraft, March 9, 2021.
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the Post-9/11 Wars," 20 Years of War Seminar Series, Pardee Center, Boston University, slide presentation, September 2020.
"The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People: Here’s Why We Used the Numbers We Did — and What They Can and Can’t Tell Us," Foreign Policy in Focus, September 23, 2020.
"US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility," The Guardian, September 18, 2020.
"Millions Displaced by U.S. Combat since 9/11," Investigative Reporting Workshop, September 8, 2020. .
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars," with Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachael Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup, Costs of War Project, Brown University, September 8, 2020.
"Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack: 56 Suggestions for Teaching about War," Radical Teacher 117 (August 11, 2020).
"No Bases? How Social Movements against U.S. Military Bases Abroad Are Challenging Militarization and Militarism," suppl. issue, “Cultures of Militarism,” edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. Current Anthropology 60, supp. 19: S158-S172.
"Don’t Just Close Bases at Home, Close Them Overseas," New York Times op-ed, July 27, 2015.
"Most Countries Have Given Up Their Colonies. Why Hasn’t America?" Washington Post, September 28, 2017.
“Forty-five Blows Against Democracy: How U.S. Military Bases Back Dictators, Autocrats, and Military Regimes.” TomDispatch.com, May 16, 2017.
"A Pistol on the Table: U.S. Military Installations in Italy and the Bases of U.S. Power," special issue, “Projecting Americanism Abroad: The Case of Cold-War Italy,” edited by Barbara Alfano and Anna Celenza. Italian Quarterly 54: 132-155.
“'Everyone Has the Right to Live on Their Island. Why Not Us?'” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 6, 2016 .
Atoning for Washington’s “Mass Kidnapping” in the Indian Ocean. Nation, July 11, 2016.
"Doubling Down on a Failed Strategy: The Pentagon’s Dangerous “New” Base Plan," TomDispatch.com, January 14, 2016.
"Garrisoning the Globe: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security and Harm Us All," TomDispatch.com, September 13, 2015.
"The Lily Pad Strategy: American Military Extends Its Reach Worldwide," Investigative Reporting Workshop, August 25, 2015.
"Where in the World Is the U.S. Military?" Politico, July/August 2015.
“The Truth About Diego Garcia: And 50 Years of Fiction About an American Military Base.” TomDispatch.com, June 14, 2014.
“The Bases of War in the Middle East: From Carter to the _Islamic State, 35 Years of Building Bases and Sowing Disaster.” TomDispatch.com, November 13, 2014.
“The Italian Job: How the Pentagon Is Using Your Tax Dollars to Turn Italy Into a Launching Pad for the Wars of Today and Tomorrow.” TomDispatch.com, October 3, 2013.
“Forty Years of Heartbreak: Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland.” Huffington Post, May 28, 2013.
“Where Has All the Money Gone? How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad since 2001.” TomDispatch.com, May 14, 2013.
“Picking Up a $170 Billion Tab: How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet.” TomDispatch.com, December 11, 2012.
“The Lily-Pad Strategy: How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War.” TomDispatch.com, July 16.
“Fanning the Flames in Honduras.” Huffington Post, February 22, 2012.
“Nothing ‘Off-base’ about Ron Paul's Estimates of U.S. Bases Overseas.” Focal Points Blog, February 20, 2012.
“Bipartisan Strategy Takes Shape to Close Overseas U.S. Bases.” With Raymond DuBois. Defense News, January 29, 2012.
“Jeju Island Activist Sung-Hee Choi Interviewed in Prison.” Foreign Policy in Focus, July 26, 2011.
“Smearing Japan.” Foreign Policy in Focus, April 20, 2011.
“What Kevin Maher Said." [Japanese] Ryukyu Shimpo, April 10, 2011, p. 3.
“It Was Not an Off the Record Session.” Letter to the editor, The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2011.
“WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Use of Environmentalism by US and UK as Pretext to Keep Natives From Returning to Diego Garcia.” Focal Points Blog, December 3, 2010.
“Environmental Protection of Bases?” Foreign Policy in Focus, April 22, 2010.
"Gefährliche Stützpunkte: Diego Garcia, die NATO und der Bedarf an Alternativen" [Dangerous Bases: Diego Garcia, NATO, and the Need for Alternatives]. Perspektiven für eine sichere Welt: Alternativen zur NATO, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Reihe Manuskripte, 89. Erhard Crome, ed. Pp. 73-84. Karl Dietz Verlag: Berlin, 2010.
"Too Many Overseas Bases," Foreign Policy in Focus, February 25, 2009.
"Battle over Bases," Foreign Policy in Focus, March 9, 2009.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“‘We’re Profiteers’: How Military Contractors Reap Billions from U.S. Military Bases Overseas.” Monthly Review 66, no. 3 (2014): 82-102.
“When a Country Becomes a Military Base: Blowback and Insecurity in Honduras, the World’s Most Dangerous Place.” In Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability. Lesley Sharp and Nancy Chen, eds. Pp. 25-44. (Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2014).
“What If You Can’t Protest a Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia.” Special issue on social movements around foreign military bases. Michael Hardt, ed. South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 4 (2012): 847-56.
“Compensating a People for the Loss of Their Homeland: Diego Garcia, the Chagossians, and the Human Rights Standards Damages Model.” With Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 11, no. 1 (2012): 152-185.
“Married to the Mob? Uncovering the Relationship between the U.S. Military and the Mafia in Southern Italy.” Anthropology Now 4, no. 2 (2012). Pp. 54-69.
“‘Lily Pad’ Bases and New Cold Wars: Ansbach’s Place in the Global Transformation of US Military Bases.” Militärstadt Ansbach - Blick zurück und nach vorn, [Ansbach as a Military Town: Past and Future] conference, Ansbach, Germany, June 16, 2012.
“‘Lily Pad’ Stützpunkte und Neue Kalte Kriege: Ansbachs Stellung in der globalen Transformation der US-amerikanischen Militärbasen,” Militärstadt Ansbach - Blick zurück und nach vorn, Ansbach, Deutschland, 16 Juni 2012.
“Yankee City in the Heart of the Camorra: The U.S. Military in Campania.” Meridione: Sud e Nord nel Mondo: La Napoli degli Americani dalla Liberazione alle basi Nato [Americans in Naples from Liberation to NATO Bases], no. 4 (2011). Chiara Ingrosso and Luca Molinari, eds. Pp. 243-264.
An excerpt from The United States of War.
An interview about The United States of War.
For more information about military bases and war, my book Base Nation, maps, and other resources, see my site: www.basenation.us
A crowdsourced list of anti-base movements through time, including info about movements today.
For lists of U.S. bases abroad from 1776-2021, see my spreadsheet: https://doi.org/10.17606/7em4-hb13
For a major report and the most comprehensive list of U.S. bases abroad available, produced with World BEYOND War's Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger, see "Drawdown: Improving U.S. and Global Security Through Military Base Closures Abroad," Quincy Brief No. 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft/World BEYOND War, September 2021. The report's 2021 list of U.S. bases abroad, produced by Deppen, is available at https://quincyinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Overseas-Bases-List.xlsx
One way to learn about and join the struggle to close US bases abroad is the Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, which I help lead: www.overseasbases.net
Articles, Op-eds, Reports
"Drawdown: Improving U.S. and Global Security Through Military Base Closures Abroad," with Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger, Quincy Brief No. 16, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft/World BEYOND War, September 2021.
"Do You Want a New Cold War with China? The AUKUS Alliance Takes the World to the Brink." TomDispatch.com, October 21, 2021.
"Not Just about Subs, AUKUS Expands US Military Footprint in Australia, Too." Responsible Statecraft, September 20, 2021.
"This Was a Corrupt War to Its Core," The Guardian, August 19, 2021.
"After Years of Causing Destruction, the US Owes the Afghan People: Biden Must Pledge to Resettle One Million Afghan Refugees," Business Insider, August 16, 2021.
"Why the U.S. Is Trapped in 'Endless War,'" Big Think, August 12, 2021.
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars," Costs of War Project, Brown University, 2021 Update, August 19, 2021.
"Biden’s Refugee Plan Doesn't Do Nearly Enough," New York Daily News, May 20, 2021.
"175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration," Council on Hemispheric Affairs, April 22, 2021.
"Nine Ways that Drawing Down Overseas Bases Will Improve US Security," with Andrew Bacevich, Responsible Statecraft, March 9, 2021.
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the Post-9/11 Wars," 20 Years of War Seminar Series, Pardee Center, Boston University, slide presentation, September 2020.
"The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People: Here’s Why We Used the Numbers We Did — and What They Can and Can’t Tell Us," Foreign Policy in Focus, September 23, 2020.
"US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility," The Guardian, September 18, 2020.
"Millions Displaced by U.S. Combat since 9/11," Investigative Reporting Workshop, September 8, 2020. .
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars," with Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachael Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup, Costs of War Project, Brown University, September 8, 2020.
"Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack: 56 Suggestions for Teaching about War," Radical Teacher 117 (August 11, 2020).
"No Bases? How Social Movements against U.S. Military Bases Abroad Are Challenging Militarization and Militarism," suppl. issue, “Cultures of Militarism,” edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. Current Anthropology 60, supp. 19: S158-S172.
"Don’t Just Close Bases at Home, Close Them Overseas," New York Times op-ed, July 27, 2015.
"Most Countries Have Given Up Their Colonies. Why Hasn’t America?" Washington Post, September 28, 2017.
“Forty-five Blows Against Democracy: How U.S. Military Bases Back Dictators, Autocrats, and Military Regimes.” TomDispatch.com, May 16, 2017.
"A Pistol on the Table: U.S. Military Installations in Italy and the Bases of U.S. Power," special issue, “Projecting Americanism Abroad: The Case of Cold-War Italy,” edited by Barbara Alfano and Anna Celenza. Italian Quarterly 54: 132-155.
“'Everyone Has the Right to Live on Their Island. Why Not Us?'” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 6, 2016 .
Atoning for Washington’s “Mass Kidnapping” in the Indian Ocean. Nation, July 11, 2016.
"Doubling Down on a Failed Strategy: The Pentagon’s Dangerous “New” Base Plan," TomDispatch.com, January 14, 2016.
"Garrisoning the Globe: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security and Harm Us All," TomDispatch.com, September 13, 2015.
"The Lily Pad Strategy: American Military Extends Its Reach Worldwide," Investigative Reporting Workshop, August 25, 2015.
"Where in the World Is the U.S. Military?" Politico, July/August 2015.
“The Truth About Diego Garcia: And 50 Years of Fiction About an American Military Base.” TomDispatch.com, June 14, 2014.
“The Bases of War in the Middle East: From Carter to the _Islamic State, 35 Years of Building Bases and Sowing Disaster.” TomDispatch.com, November 13, 2014.
“The Italian Job: How the Pentagon Is Using Your Tax Dollars to Turn Italy Into a Launching Pad for the Wars of Today and Tomorrow.” TomDispatch.com, October 3, 2013.
“Forty Years of Heartbreak: Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland.” Huffington Post, May 28, 2013.
“Where Has All the Money Gone? How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad since 2001.” TomDispatch.com, May 14, 2013.
“Picking Up a $170 Billion Tab: How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet.” TomDispatch.com, December 11, 2012.
“The Lily-Pad Strategy: How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War.” TomDispatch.com, July 16.
“Fanning the Flames in Honduras.” Huffington Post, February 22, 2012.
“Nothing ‘Off-base’ about Ron Paul's Estimates of U.S. Bases Overseas.” Focal Points Blog, February 20, 2012.
“Bipartisan Strategy Takes Shape to Close Overseas U.S. Bases.” With Raymond DuBois. Defense News, January 29, 2012.
“Jeju Island Activist Sung-Hee Choi Interviewed in Prison.” Foreign Policy in Focus, July 26, 2011.
“Smearing Japan.” Foreign Policy in Focus, April 20, 2011.
“What Kevin Maher Said." [Japanese] Ryukyu Shimpo, April 10, 2011, p. 3.
“It Was Not an Off the Record Session.” Letter to the editor, The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2011.
“WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Use of Environmentalism by US and UK as Pretext to Keep Natives From Returning to Diego Garcia.” Focal Points Blog, December 3, 2010.
“Environmental Protection of Bases?” Foreign Policy in Focus, April 22, 2010.
"Gefährliche Stützpunkte: Diego Garcia, die NATO und der Bedarf an Alternativen" [Dangerous Bases: Diego Garcia, NATO, and the Need for Alternatives]. Perspektiven für eine sichere Welt: Alternativen zur NATO, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Reihe Manuskripte, 89. Erhard Crome, ed. Pp. 73-84. Karl Dietz Verlag: Berlin, 2010.
"Too Many Overseas Bases," Foreign Policy in Focus, February 25, 2009.
"Battle over Bases," Foreign Policy in Focus, March 9, 2009.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“‘We’re Profiteers’: How Military Contractors Reap Billions from U.S. Military Bases Overseas.” Monthly Review 66, no. 3 (2014): 82-102.
“When a Country Becomes a Military Base: Blowback and Insecurity in Honduras, the World’s Most Dangerous Place.” In Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability. Lesley Sharp and Nancy Chen, eds. Pp. 25-44. (Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2014).
“What If You Can’t Protest a Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia.” Special issue on social movements around foreign military bases. Michael Hardt, ed. South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 4 (2012): 847-56.
“Compensating a People for the Loss of Their Homeland: Diego Garcia, the Chagossians, and the Human Rights Standards Damages Model.” With Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 11, no. 1 (2012): 152-185.
“Married to the Mob? Uncovering the Relationship between the U.S. Military and the Mafia in Southern Italy.” Anthropology Now 4, no. 2 (2012). Pp. 54-69.
“‘Lily Pad’ Bases and New Cold Wars: Ansbach’s Place in the Global Transformation of US Military Bases.” Militärstadt Ansbach - Blick zurück und nach vorn, [Ansbach as a Military Town: Past and Future] conference, Ansbach, Germany, June 16, 2012.
“‘Lily Pad’ Stützpunkte und Neue Kalte Kriege: Ansbachs Stellung in der globalen Transformation der US-amerikanischen Militärbasen,” Militärstadt Ansbach - Blick zurück und nach vorn, Ansbach, Deutschland, 16 Juni 2012.
“Yankee City in the Heart of the Camorra: The U.S. Military in Campania.” Meridione: Sud e Nord nel Mondo: La Napoli degli Americani dalla Liberazione alle basi Nato [Americans in Naples from Liberation to NATO Bases], no. 4 (2011). Chiara Ingrosso and Luca Molinari, eds. Pp. 243-264.