See 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool. Interactive Map

This was originally published in November 2022. World BEYOND War has launched a new online tool at worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases that allows the user to view a globe pock-marked with 867 U.S. military bases in countries other than the United States, and to zoom in for a satellite view of and detailed information on each base. The tool also allows filtering…

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This was originally published in November 2022.

World BEYOND War has launched a new online tool at worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases that allows the user to view a globe pock-marked with 867 U.S. military bases in countries other than the United States, and to zoom in for a satellite view of and detailed information on each base. The tool also allows filtering the map or list of bases by country, government type, opening date, number of personnel, or acres of land occupied.

This visual database was researched and developed by World BEYOND War to help journalists, activists, researchers, and individual readers understand the immense problem of excessive preparation for war, which inevitably leads to international bullying, meddling, threats, escalation, and mass atrocity. By illustrating the extent of the U.S. empire of military outposts, World BEYOND War hopes to call attention to the wider problem of war preparations. Thanks to davidvine.net for a variety of information included in this tool.

The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains this massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were displaced to make room for these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence.

U.S. bases in foreign lands often raise geopolitical tensions, support undemocratic regimes, and serve as a recruiting tool for militant groups opposed to the U.S. presence and the governments its presence bolsters. In other cases, foreign bases have made it easier for the United States to launch and execute disastrous wars, including those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. Across the political spectrum and even within the U.S. military there is growing recognition that many overseas bases should have been closed decades ago, but bureaucratic inertia and misguided political interests have kept them open. Estimates of the yearly cost to the U.S. of its foreign military bases range from $100 – 250 billion.

View a video about the new bases tool.

click below top access Interactive Map:   

USA’s Military Empire: A Visual Database

By World Beyond War

One response to “See 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool. Interactive Map”

  1. Henry Okereke Avatar
    Henry Okereke

    Very interesting to know these things, I want to opine that at one point in the modern human experience, the United States of America was on the balance of factors, the global leader in the development and maintenance of democratic practice around the world, and it had on its own domestic front, worked progressively to the recognizable extent that nations of the world looked up to the ideals of their model as worth of emulation.

    Today, it would be dubious at best to say that the American version of democracy has evolved into something better, rather, it would be greatly correct to say that there has been a regression of the sort that has the USA itself in grave danger of collapse and total disintegration. The progressive elements in the American society are being threatened to reverse course or face domestic terrorism as the consequence.

    To this extent, the America that cannot sustain the democratic values it chose for itself can hardly be the champions of democratic principles elsewhere.

    This situation no doubt, puts a huge question mark above the banner of the proliferation of military bases abroad around the globe, my conclusion is therefore, that the American people should look back inwards and clean up the ugly trends of every action especially legislative, that tends towards clawback of the progress in the direction of engagement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, before the world realised that physician is critically ill himself, which would ultimately impact the fate of America’s military bases around the world.

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