The United States maintains more than 700 bases around the world and is pushing to set up even more. What are these bases doing, how is the Pentagon rethinking their functions, and how can we reduce this military footprint?
As Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison explain in Pushing Missile Defense in Europe, the United States wants to establish bases in Poland and the Czech Republic—over the objections of the citizens of those countries.
With the new Africa Command, Daniel Volman and Beth Tuckey argue in Militarizing Africa (Again), the United States is increasing its military presence on an energy-rich continent.
And Tom Engelhardt laments in The Million Year War that there's a risk that the United States will never withdraw from Iraq.