Von InvestmentDenker auf Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2025
Kategorie: InvestmentDenker

USA Militärstützpunkte im Ausland


GEOGRAPHIE


KOSTEN


KRIEGE


SCHÄDEN


SCHLIEßUNGEN


POLITIK


ALTERNATIVEN ZU AUSLÄNDISCHEN MILITÄRBASEN

Endnotes

1. David Vine, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (Metropolitan, 2015); David Vine, "List of US Military Bases Abroad," 2017, American University, http://dx.doi.org/10.17606/M6H599; John Glaser, "Withdrawing from Overseas Bases: Why a Forward-Deployed Military Posture Is Unnecessary, Outdated, and Dangerous," Policy Analysis 816, CATO Institute, July 18, 2017. Frank Jacobs, "The World's Five Military Empires," BigThink.com, July 10, 2017, http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-worlds-five-military-empires; Damien Sharkov, "Russia's Military Compared to the U.S." Newsweek, June 8, 2018, http://www.newsweek.com/russias-military-compared-us-which-country-has-more-military-bases-across-954328.

2. Vine, "List of U.S. Military Bases Abroad"; Glaser; Department of Defense, "Base Structure Report Fiscal Year 2015 Baseline (A Summary of DOD's Real Property Inventory)," Washington, DC, 2015; Costs of War project, "Current United States Counterterror War Locations," map, n.d.[2017], www.costsofwar.org.

3. Michael J. Lostumbo, et al., "Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits," report, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, April 29, 2013, p. xxv; David Vine, American University, estimate of base costs for OBRACC, Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein.; Vine, Base Nation; National Priorities Project Trade-Offs tool, https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/trade-offs/.

4. Andrew J. Bacevich, "Even If We Defeat the Islamic State, We'll Still Lose the Bigger War," Washington Post, October 3, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/even-if-we-defeat-the-islamic-state-well-still-lose- the-bigger-war/2014/10/03/e8c0585e-4353-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?utm_term=.e9abf929c5a0; Vine, Base Nation, p. 328; Stephen Glain, "What Actually Motivated Osama bin Laden," U.S. News & World Report, May 3, 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/even-if-we-defeat-the-islamic-state-well-still-lose- the-bigger-war/2014/10/03/e8c0585e-4353-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?utm_term=.e9abf929c5a0; Bradley L. Bowman, "After Iraq," Washington Quarterly 31, no. 2 (2008): 85.

5. Catherine Lutz, ed., The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts (New York: New York University Press, 2009); Vine, Base Nation; David Vine, "Forty-five Blows Against Democracy: How U.S. Military Bases Back Dictators, Autocrats, and Military Regimes," TomDispatch.com, May 16, 2017, http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176281/; Sharon Weiner, "Environmental Concerns at U.S. Overseas Military Installations," working paper, Defense and Army Control Studies Program, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1992; Center for Public Environmental Oversight, www.cpeo.org.

6. Department of Defense, "Strengthening U.S. Global Defense Posture, Report to Congress," Washington, DC, September 17, 2004, 5; Lutz; Andrew Yeo, Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011); Department of Defense, "Department of Defense Infrastructure Capacity," report, October 2017, https://fas.org/man/eprint/infrastructure.pdf; Lostumbo, et al., p. 38.

7. BRAC website, https://www.acq.osd.mil/brac; Jill Stein presidential platform, https://www.jill2016.com/platform; Council on Foreign Relations, "Gary Johnson," https://www.cfr.org/interactives/campaign2016/gary-johnson; Alan Yuhas, "Donald Trump Hails 'Evening of Love' in New Hampshire as Bush Overshadowed, Guardian, August 20, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/20/donald-trump-new-hampshire-event-jeb-bush.

8. See e.g., John Feffer, et al., "Just Security: An Alternative Foreign Policy Framework," report, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, July 2007; Glaser, pp. 13-19. 

https://www.overseasbases.net/