Base infrastructure that outlives its purpose actively creates insecurity

Evidence

Unlike firefighters, when bases abroad look for things to do, the consequences extend far beyond potential waste and inefficiency. In many ways, instead of providing security, overseas bases are often helping to make the world a more dangerous place. … A base that’s reassuring for one power can look like a threat to another. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1060

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The security-dilemma inversion of bases — physical infrastructure intended for defense reads as menace to neighbors — is a dense geopolitical paradox worth extended reflection.
• XREF: connects to: Beginning physical construction on a project makes authorities unable to stop it — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 961