Once upon a time, you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America's version of the colony is the military base-and by following the changing politics of global basing, one can learn much about the ever more all-encompassing imperial American "footprint" and the ...
Several American military bases across Europe under heightened state of alert The level was raised to the second highest state of alert, which applies when intelligence indicates some form of terrorist action is likely, according to the Army....
Financial support has also been forth-coming for African leaders able to co-opt their own internal struggles into the wider "war on terror", as demonstrated by the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni. But, throughout the continent and especially outside the Horn, US military activity in respect...
Indeed, from an outsider’s perspective, the proliferation of U.S. military bases around the world (there are nowroughly 800), as well as of drone strikes, Special Ops raids, and massiveweapons exportsmight have a cancerous look to them. In other words, what constitutes a “cancer” depen...
Virginia has three of the 10 military installations named after Confederates. Louisiana and Georgia each have two. Alabama, North Carolina and Texas each have one. The bases were named for such figures asRobert E. Leeof Virginia, who commanded the Confederate Army;Pierre Gustave Toutant...
Climate impacts that could affect the DOD's nearly 7,600 sites worldwide include hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing storm frequency and intensity
Pete Hegseth Says US Military Bases Should Restore Names of Confederate GeneralsCNN "We should change it back, because legacy matters." Judge Reassigned After Texting ‘My First Ankle Monitor’ Gag to Another JudgeCWBChicago The image was of a black child receiving the monitor. ...
within, our lands; namely at this timethe UN, property ownership of US lands by individuals not of US citizenship(renewable leases that are revocable in time of war and subject to US interestlaws would be acceptable but absolutely no foreign or U.N or other country'smilitary bases) ...
Throughout most of the war in Iraq, the 506th Air Expeditionary Group flew combat missions from the base, where they also trainrf Iraqi Air Force pilots. Around 5,000 U.S. soldiers served at Kirkuk until 2011, when the U.S. military turned over the air base to the Iraqi military. ...
Having declared independence from France in 1953, Cambodia was a sacrificial lamb during the Vietnam War. In 1969, US bombing raids targeted North Vietnamese military bases inside Cambodia. In five years of subsequent civil war, North Vietnam overran large areas of eastern Cambodia, which it ga...