At least eighteen documented base displacements outside the US occurred since the 1800s.

Evidence

After a century of displacement in North America, there have been at least eighteen documented cases of base displacement outside the continental United States since the late 1800s. In Hawaii, for instance, the United States first took possession of Pearl Harbor in 1887, when officials coerced the indigenous monarchy into granting exclusive access to the protected bay. Half a century later, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy seized Kahoolawe, the smallest of Hawaii’s eight major islands, and ordered its inhabitants to leave. The Navy turned the island, which is home to some 544 archaeological sites and other sacred places for indigenous Hawaiians, into a weapons testing range. It wasn’t until 2003 that the Navy finally returned the island—now environmentally devastated—to the state. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 197

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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