KEY READINGS


A fact sheet on U.S. bases abroad can be found here.

An op-ed by Miriam Pemberton highlighting the Coalition and its letter published in Defense One.


Bacevich, Andrew J.
America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. New York: Random House, 2016.
 
“Even If We Defeat the Islamic State We’ll Still Lose the Bigger War.” Washington Post, October 3, 2014.
 
American Conservative writing, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/andrew-j-bacevich/
 
 
Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
“Unity Statement.” 2017. http://noforeignbases.org/345-2/
 
Highlights from Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases, January 12-14, 2018. http://worldbeyondwar.org/bases/
 
 
DuBois, Raymond
“Bipartisan Strategy Takes Shape to Close Overseas U.S. Bases.” With David Vine.
Defense News, January 29, 2012.
 
“Global Security Forum: What Will Be the Impact on U.S. Power Projection with the Loss of Overseas Bases?” Panel, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, May 13, 2010.
 
 
Feffer, John
“A Glimpse Into the Future of Asia.” Nation, June 1, 2017.
 
“Will Trump Complete the Pivot to Asia?” Foreign Policy In Focus, February 13, 2017.
 
“North Korea: The Costs of War, Calculated.” Common Dreams, December 11, 2017.
 
 
Gerson, Joseph
The Sun Never Sets…Confronting the Network of Foreign U.S. Military Bases, edited with Bruce Birchard. Boston: South End Press, 1991.
 
“10 Reasons to Withdraw US Foreign Military Bases,” Peacework. February 2007.
 
Special Issue on Foreign Military Bases. Guest Editor. Peace Review. May, 2010.
 
 
Gholz, Eugene
“Come Home America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation.” With Daryl G. Press and Harvey M. Sapolsky. International Security, 21, no. 4 (Spring 1997): 5-48.    
 
“The Nixon Doctrine in the 21st Century.” World Politics Review, July 22, 2009.    
 
“U.S. Spending on its Military Commitments to the Persian Gulf.” In Crude Strategy: Reexamining the Energy Logic of the U.S. Military Commitment to the Persian Gulf, edited by Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic, 167-95. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2016.
 
 
Glaser, John
“The Case Against U.S. Overseas Military Bases: Why They Are No Longer a Strategic Asset.” Foreign Affairs, July 25, 2017. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-07-25/case-against-us-overseas-military-bases  
 
“Withdrawing from Overseas Bases: Why a Forward-Deployed Military Posture Is Unnecessary, Outdated, and Dangerous.” CATO Institute Report, July 18, 2017.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/withdrawing-overseas-bases-why-forward-deployed-military-posture
 
“The Potential Upside to Shutting Down Military Bases.” Time, January 14, 2017. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/potential-upside-shutting-down-military-bases
 
 
Eland, Ivan
War and the Rogue Presidency: Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2019.
 
“‘Independent Internationalism’ and the Military Forces Needed for It,” Independent Review 21, n. 2 (2016): 219–236.
 
The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. Revised edition. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2008.
 
 
Lindsay-Poland, John
Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
 
“Pentagon Continues Contracting US Companies in Latin America.” Fellowship of Reconciliation blog, January 2013.
 
“Health In Vieques: A Crisis and its Causes.” With Cruz Maria Nazario and Déborah Santana. Fellowship of Reconciliation blog, 2002.
 
 
Lutz, Catherine
Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
 
The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts, edited by Catherine Lutz. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
 
“U.S. Military Bases in Guam in Global Perspective.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, July 2010.
 
 
Mueller, John 
“Embracing Threatlessness: US Military Spending, Newt Gingrich, and the Costa Rica Option.” In U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case for Restraint, edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Benjamin H. Friedman, 198-219. New York and London: Routledge, 2018.
 
 
Norimatsu, Satoko Oka
Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States. With Gavan McCormack. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
 
The Asia-Pacific Journal articles: https://apjjf.org/-Norimatsu-Satoko
 
Peace Philosophy Centre articles: http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_16.html
 
 
Pemberton, Miriam
Commissioned and edited: Anita Dancs. “The Cost of the Global U.S. Military Presence.” Foreign Policy In Focus, July 2, 2009.
 
“The International Grassroots Summit on Military Base Cleanup.” Conference report, International Grassroots Summit, Washington, DC, November 1999.
 
 
Posen, Barry
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
 
 
Ruger, William
“To Defend America, Don’t Overreach.” New York Times, March 20, 2018.
 
 
Saruta, Sayo
New Diplomacy Initiative (Japan): http://www.nd-initiative.org/en/
 
 
Swanson, David 
 “How Outlawing War Changed the World in 1928.” Let’s Try Democracy blog, September 12, 2017.
 
“Locals Protest, Sabotage U.S. Navy Base Construction in Desert in Sicily.” April 10, 2015.
 
“Remarks at Presidio Permanente No Dal Molin, Vicenza, Italy.” Speech [Italian], December 16, 2007.
 
 
Vine, David
The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (University of California Press, 2020).

Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2015.
 
“Shut Bases There, Save Money Here.” New York Times, July 27, 2015.
 
“Picking Up a $170 Billion Tab: How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet.” TomDispatch.com, December 11, 2012.
 
Lists of U.S. Military Bases Abroad, 1776–2021, https://doi.org/10.17606/7em4-hb13
 
Walt, Stephen M.
The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2018.
 
“Socialists And Libertarians Need an Alliance against the Establishment: U.S. Foreign Policy Is Ripe for Disruption—But Only If the Left and Right Get Their Act Together.” Foreign Policy, September 24, 2018. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/24/socialists-and-libertarians-need-an-alliance-against-the-establishment/
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