overstretched, 256
personnel, deployment of, 154–55, 156–60
political power of, 53–54
presence, number of nations in, 288
Military Assistance Pact (1947), 207, 209
Military Bases Agreement (1957), 207
military bases overseas, 64.
Afghanistan and, 181–82
CINCs and, 124
Cold War and, 32–33
construction and maintenance of, 26, 142–44
crime and racism in, 6–8, 36–37, 107–8
disguised, 4
empire of, 11, 151–55, 187–89
expulsion of, 213–14
financing of, 24–25
history of acquisition of, 188–214
indigenous people displaced by, 34, 221
Monroe Doctrine and, 2, 189–92
network of, global, 1, 23
number and value of, 4–5, 153–54, 189–90
oil and, 167–80
Persian Gulf, 226–27, 233, 237–53
post-Cold War era acquisition of, 214–15
post-Vietnam reduction in, 203–4
rationale for, 188
recreation spots for, 5
reluctance to give up, 25–26, 34–35, 152, 310
surveillance and, 161–167
after WWII, 193–203
military-industrial complex, 26, 32–33, 39, 57–58, 142–43, 152, 214, 277, 309
military officers
demographics of, 103, 104–5
number of, in foreign countries, 5
as professional military class, 55, 58–63
retired, in arms industry, 61, 135, 141
military participation ratio (MPR), 52, 59
Military Professional Resources, Inc. (MPRI), 140, 141, 142
Miller, Stuart Creighton, 43
Milosevic, Slobodan, 74
Mindanao, Muslim secessionists in, 210
Misawa Air Force Base (Japan), 162, 164
Missile Defense Agency, 309
“mission myopia,” 300
Moberg, David, 74
Mobil Oil, 218
Mongol empire, 257
Monroe, James, 191
Monroe Doctrine, 40, 190–92
