US Defence Bases in the United Kingdom
Author | : Simon Duke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1986-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349184829 |
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Author | : Simon Duke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1986-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349184829 |
Author | : Simon Duke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simon Duke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198291329 |
For many people who live in Europe, the presence of substantial US military forces is a matter of concern and debate, which has tended so far to centre around a few highly-visible bases, such as the cruise missile locations. Apart from these few bases, relatively little is known about the size and extent of the US military presence in Europe. This book aims to fill that gap by providing the raw data on what is where. The study also highlights the historical details behind the acquisition of bases in individual countries, and summarizes and analyses all of the basing agreements between the US and its host nations which are available to the public. The book a timely contribution to the debate: as discussions begin for possible post-INF cuts in superpower force levels in Europe, there is an urgent need for accurate and unbiased information on US forces in Western Europe and on the massive infrastructure that supports those forces.
Author | : Simon Duke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : David Vine |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1627791698 |
American military bases encircle the globe; from Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras. The far-reaching story of the perils of the U. S. military bases and what these bases say about America today.
Author | : Sean C. Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Military bases |
ISBN | : 9780989213332 |
Home Bases: Memories & Stories of US Military Bases Around London is a book that, for the first time, puts the spotlight on the history of many of the US Military's lesser known command and support bases that were located either in or close to London, England. The bases (often known as 'Little Americas') are furthermore brought to life in a series of 'snapshot' memories by around 40 people who either served, worked or were involved in everything from establishing them to demolishing them. The book is a 'swords to ploughshares' look at the bases as they proliferated through WWII and the Cold War before many were closed and handed back to Britain's Ministry of Defence which, subsequently, has sold a number of sites on for redevelopment as housing and mixed-use destinations. Home Bases is, in essence a love letter to those places and times.
Author | : Duncan Campbell |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781326506155 |
In The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier, Duncan Campbell has penetrated the veil of secrecy around this concentration of armed forces on our shores, and shows how wartime US military power in Britain now matches the height of the Cold War, thirty years ago. This is an authorised re-issue of the 1986 version of this book.
Author | : Alexander Cooley |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-07-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801458471 |
According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases to smaller and much more numerous bases across the globe. This so-called lily-pad strategy, designed to allow high-speed reactions to military emergencies anywhere in the world, has provoked significant debate in military circles and sometimes-fierce contention within the polity of the host countries. In Base Politics, Alexander Cooley examines how domestic politics in different host countries, especially in periods of democratic transition, affect the status of U.S. bases and the degree to which the U.S. military has become a part of their local and national landscapes. Drawing on exhaustive field research in different host nations across East Asia and Southern Europe, as well as the new postcommunist base hosts in the Black Sea and Central Asia, Cooley offers an original and provocative account of how and why politicians in host countries contest or accept the presence of the U.S. military on their territory. Overseas bases, Cooley shows, are not merely installations that serve a military purpose. For host governments and citizens, U.S. bases are also concrete institutions and embodiments of U.S. power, identity, and diplomacy. Analyzing the degree to which overseas bases become enmeshed in local political agendas and interests, Base Politics will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the extent-and limits-of America's overseas military influence.
Author | : David Vine |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-01-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691149836 |
David Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.
Author | : Catherine Lutz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0814752969 |
A quarter of a million U.S. troops are massed in over seven hundred major official overseas airbases around the world. In the past decade, the Pentagon has formulated and enacted a plan to realign, or reconfigure, its bases in keeping with new doctrines of pre-emption and intensified concern with strategic resource control, all with seemingly little concern for the surrounding geography and its inhabitants. The contributors in The Bases of Empire trace the political, environmental, and economic impact of these bases on their surrounding communities across the globe, including Latin America, Europe, and Asia, where opposition to the United States’ presence has been longstanding and widespread, and is growing rapidly. Through sharp analysis and critique, The Bases of Empire illuminates the vigorous campaigns to hold the United States accountable for the damage its bases cause in allied countries as well as in war zones, and offers ways to reorient security policies in other, more humane, and truly secure directions. Contributors: Julian Aguon, Kozue Akibayashi, Ayse Gul Altinay, Tom Engelhardt, Cynthia Enloe, Joseph Gerson, David Heller, Amy Holmes, Laura Jeffery, Kyle Kajihiro, Hans Lammerant, John Lindsay-Poland, Catherine Lutz, Katherine McCaffrey, Roland G. Simbulan, Suzuyo Takazato, and David Vine.