David Vine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC, the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009), and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.
After 40 years of exile and too many broken hearts, it’s long past time we let the Chagossians go home.
The Pentagon controls a huge collection of global military bases. The question is: Who is benefiting?
Even a conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes to an annual total of about $170 billion–or maybe even more.
Professor Vine addresses the status of American military bases, or “lily pads,” which exist in every continent and the economic and political implications of continued global military dominance.
Whatever one thinks of Paul’s candidacy, he has been raising legitimate and oft-ignored questions about U.S. military bases and troops abroad.
Within America, there exists a wide-spread outcry to call attention to the expense of military bases abroad–an issue which has the ability to receive support from both the right and the left.
Choi was arrested for her attempts to prevent the construction of a naval base in Jeju’s Gangjeong Village, a base that many suspect would become a new port for the U.S. Navy.
To some students celebrations over bin Laden’s death are more evidence of America’s militarization.
A State Department official resigned after describing Okinawans as “extortionists” and “lazy.” Here’s the story behind the story.
U.S. and U.K. cables show contempt in which natives of Diego Garcia are held.
A vignette from the annual conference of something called the Association of the United States Army.
The U.S. Men’s World Cup victories are not signs of some unique “American character” that we have and that no one else possesses.
We need to make the usual suspects in foreign policy expertise more reflective of the nation’s diversity.
The new marine protection area in the Indian Ocean seems like a great step forward. Until you look at it a little more carefully.
The Bush administration used marine protection as a cover for consolidating U.S. bases in the Pacific. The new president must reverse this policy.
Rumsfeld had dreams of radically rearranging the U.S. empire of bases. Here’s what happened instead.
In addition to freeing money to meet critical human needs at home and abroad, closing overseas bases would help rebuild the U.S. military.
While Gitmo gets most of the ink, the U.S. base on Diego Garcia quietly prepares for a role in staging a possible attack on Iran.