The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts

by Catherine Lutz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814752446
• ISBN13: 9780814752449
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"