3. See maps of the Roman and British Empires in “The Next American Empire,”
4. Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Installations and Environment),
5. Amy Holmes, “The Bases of Empire: The Impact of U.S. Military Installations on Germany and Turkey,” Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University, February 19, 2004, pp. 7, 17-18.
6. Arkin,
7. “Enough Time for Iraq to Implement UN Resolutions—[Foreign Minister Marwan] Muasher,”
8. Mark Sappenfield and Patrik Jonsson, “As Military Realigns Bases, the South Wins,”
9. William M. Arkin, “War Plans Meaner, Not Leaner,”
10. Martin Sieff, “Analysis: Bush Pushes Global Force Reform,” Linked Press International, November 25, 2003; Alan Bock, “Repositioning on the Titanic,” Antiwar.com, August 20, 2004; David Isenberg, “Reshaping Washington’s Global Footprint,”
11. The White House, “President Speaks at Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention,” http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040816-12.html.
12. See Douglas J. Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense,
13. “Pentagon to Close 35 Percent of Overseas Bases; ’Forward Operating Sites’ to Replace Cold War-era Bases,” Associated Press, September 23, 2004.
14. Jan Erickson and Leonard Tengco, “Congress Endangers Military Women’s Health with Ban,” National Organization for Women, May 28, 2003, http://www.now.org/issues/military/052803ban.htmPprintable; Johnson,
15. Diana B. Henriques, “Temptation Near for Military’s Problem Gamblers,”
16. Quoted by Michael T. Klare, “Imperial Reach: The Pentagon’s New Basing Strategy,”
17. Mark Mazzetti, “Pax Americana: Dispatched to Distant Outposts, U.S. Forces Confront the Perils of an Unruly World,”
18. Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure,
19. Edward Harris, Associated Press, “U.S. Green Berets Train Mali Troops to Guard Desert Interior Against Terrorists, Bandits,”
20. Pepe Escobar, “The Algerian Connection,”
21. Vernon Loeb, “New Bases Reflect Shift in Military,”
22. Mark Sappenfield, “Pentagon Stirs Tensions in Foreign Base Shuffle,”
23. Thomas Donnelly and Vance Serchuk, “Toward a Global Cavalry: Overseas Rebasing and Defense Transformation,”
24. David Morris, “Senators Seek to Shutter Overseas Military Bases,” GovExec.com, April 29, 2003; Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, “Senators Hutchison and Feinstein Introduce Legislation Creating an Overseas Military Base Commission,” April 29, 2003; “S. 949, The Overseas Military Facility Structure Review Act,”
25. Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure,
26. Ibid., p.M7.
27. Ibid., p.M2.
28. Ibid.; Robert Burns, Associated Press, “Panel Urges Slow Return of Troops to Bases,”
29. William Pfaff, “U.S. Military Abroad: More Bases Won’t Curb Terrorism,”
30. Tom Engelhardt, “Bases, Bases Everywhere,” TomDispatch.com, June 1, 2005, p. 4, http://wvvw.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=3025; James Sterngold, “After 9/11, U.S. Policy Built on World Bases,”
31. Robin Wright and Ann Scott Tyson, “U.S. Evicted from Air Base in Uzbekistan,”
