bs2Nov 20, 2024
> The US military is vast in scale, with a carbon footprint larger than any other institution.. disclosure of its emissions of greenhouse gases, it’s been kept off the books – and has been let off the hook.
> “It’s the elephant in the room,".. #DavidVine, author of, #BaseNation: How US #MilitaryBases Abroad Harm America and the World. “It operates with this kind of cloak of invisibility despite having a long track record of very serious damage.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/12/elephant-in-the-room-the-us-militarys-devastating-carbon-footprint
/HT @pvonhellermannn
‘Elephant in the room’: The US military’s devastating carbon footprint

The US military emits more than entire industrialised nations like Portugal and Denmark, yet evades scrutiny.

Al Jazeera
bs2Apr 3, 2024
While looking for the World Beyond War book about "A Global Security System" I found another mapping approach to seeing the #MilitaryBases of the #BaseNation #USA. It reminded of work by #DavidVine
https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases/
#WorldBeyondWar #NoBases
USA's Military Empire: A Visual Database - World BEYOND War

The USA maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world. Some are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them oppressive. Learn more about these bases. #WorldBEYONDWar

World BEYOND War
bs2Mar 14, 2024
The #BaseNation book by #DavidVine is important and I forgot it a bit. Thertags on earlier posts let me find the on-line pages and maps from on this Fediverse account. At the Free Night School there are gatherings to see on-line maps and hear talks about foreign countries. A camouflage (hiding?) expert from the nearby Japanese military (Self Defense? 自衛隊) base does events too. Organizers asked me to join the camouflage events. It's interesting but I get qualms.
https://www.basenation.us/maps.html
#BaseMaps
17 Maps of U.S. Military Bases Abroad from "Base Nation"

Downloadable maps of U.S. military bases abroad from David Vine's "Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World," including historical, regional, and thematic maps.

Base Nation
Show threadbs2Mar 14, 2024
> ..the United States maintains.. 800 military facilities in.. 70 countries.. [with] half a million Americans... Although the individual tallies are dizzying, the status of Germany (174), #Japan (113), and #SouthKorea (83).. the top of the list.. should not be surprising.. startling.. the next two: Italy (50) and.. Guam (47). Much of the local detail in #BaseNation is drawn from these five contexts; as part of his ambitious research itinerary, Vine visited all of them.
#ItalyAndGuam #Germany
Show threadbs2Mar 14, 2024
> [The focus, The distinction] falls apart as soon as we consider varieties of ongoing military colonialism and environmental injustice in the American Southwest..
#BaseNation #MilitaryBases #MilitaryColonialism #MatthewFarish #BaseWorld
bs2Mar 21, 2022
#DavidVine's book Base Nation looks really good. I lapsed from reading #TomDispatch for a few years but #TomEngelhardt's work with #ChalmersJohnson makes it easier to appreciate the maps in #BaseNation. #InformationDesign techniques can be used for worthy causes, like learning #Geography it prevent wars before they happen. God won't have to use wars to teach us anymore, we can be proactive. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
https://www.basenation.us/maps.html
17 Maps of U.S. Military Bases Abroad from "Base Nation"

Downloadable maps of U.S. military bases abroad from David Vine's "Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World," including historical, regional, and thematic maps.

Base Nation
bs2Mar 21, 2022
> #FortLeavenworth, #Kansas, once.. the “western edge of civilization,” is today both a heritage landscape and an active Army facility, including..the military’s most prominent prison..the movement of men and motifs from the “#IndianWars” to #OverseasConflicts like the #Philippine-American War(1899–1902)was direct. “Now that the continent is subdued,” the California-based #OverlandMonthly announced in 1898, “we are looking for fresh worlds to conquer.”
https://geographicalimaginations.com/2016/03/17/base-nation/
#USA #BaseNation
Base Nation

geographical imaginations
bs2Mar 21, 2022
> Base Nation[2015], the sequel to Vine’s.. #IslandOfShame (2009)..his project on what the late #ChalmersJohnson called the #Baseworld. Base Nation is.. a work of huge ambition..commendable and..inhibiting..the book..[is] a distressing and..helpful resource for grappling with the #GlobalGeography of the #AmericanArmedForces. #BaseNation also contains some of the most effective original #maps I have encountered in a study of such scale.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/baseworld/
#USA #MilitaryBases #DavidVine
Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books
bs2Mar 21, 2022
> There has been quite a bit of news both in the US and over here about #China building air strips in the #SpratlyIslands in the #SouthChinaSea and almost nothing about the fact that the #USA has surrounded China with some four hundred military bases that stretch all the way from #Australia through the Pacific up through #Asia, #Korea, #Japan and across #Eurasia.
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2016/12/transcript-john-pilger-coming-war-china-9-december-16
#JohnPilger and #ThomHartmann on #ComingWarOnChina #China #BaseNation #DavidVine
Transcript: John Pilger: The Coming War On China - 9 December '16

Thom Hartmann: Hello. I'm Thom Hartmann, in Washington DC. Welcome to the Big Picture. If you watched any of Donald Trump's rallies this year, you might have heard him rant and rave against China. The way he put it - and continues to put it - China is America's mortal enemy, an adversary for the 21st century and beyond.

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