Vasemmisto Nyt!Mar 21

Sota alkaa aina infrastruktuurin rakentamisesta

Keskustelu sodasta keskittyy yleensä johtajiin, kriiseihin ja ideologioihin. Harvemmin puhutaan infrastruktuurista, joka tekee sodista mahdollisia. Mutta onneksi on antropologi David Vine ja hänen kirjansa, kuten The United States of War. Ilman niitä olisi vaikea ymmärtää esimerkiksi Iranin ympärille syntynyttä tukikohtien verkostoa. Ne tukikohdat ovat osa sodankäynnin sotilaallista infrastruktuuria, joka on mahdollistanut jo yli sataa sotaa, joista vain viisi on alkanut […]

https://www.vasemmistonyt.fi/2026/03/21/sota-alkaa-aina-infrastruktuurin-rakentamisesta/

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
Show threadbs2Mar 18, 2024
Following up on the graphics from #DavidVine's book, #UnitedStatesOfWar and notices the "sources" notes under the graphics. The #CostsOfWar site from #BrownUniversity , #WatsonInstitute of Internation & Public Affairs looks interesting. The site links to articles from #WIlliamHartung and #TomDispatch
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The Costs of 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
bs2Mar 14, 2024
> .. to focus almost exclusively on “extraterritorial” sites is practical, but it is also political.. the division implied by this word is unsustainable... claiming that the condition of Guam or Puerto Rico hinders “our country’s ability to be a model for democracy.” ..[in] popular political speech.. [is] is familiar prose.. a fictional aspiration.. frustrating because it seems to be the result of authorial or editorial pragmatism.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/baseworld/
#PluralisticIgnorance ? #DavidVine
Baseworld | Los Angeles Review of Books

"Base Nation" remains a distressing and tremendously helpful resource for grappling with the global geography of the American armed forces....

Los Angeles Review of Books
Show threadbs2Mar 21, 2022
> No one is objective. Like the anthropologist David Graeber, I tend to think that if anyone tells you she or he is objective, that person is probably trying to sell you something.1 Still, I believe we can and must strive for objectivity, even if it’s an unattainable goal.
#DavidVine's mention of #DavidGraeber reminded me of another Awesome #Anthropoligist,, decades ago I engjoy #JackWeatherford's #IndianGivers.
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
> 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.

Thom Hartmann - News & info from the #1 progressive radio show