Cold War basing mentality predated the actual Cold War

Evidence

In this way, the mentality of the Cold War started to take hold long before the Cold War had even begun. After World War II, the result was a machinery of war centered on an expanding national security bureaucracy and a perpetually mobilized military patrolling the globe. That the country needed a large collection of bases and hundreds of thousands of troops constantly stationed overseas, as close as possible to any potential enemies, was central to this “forward posture.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the common framing of bases as a Cold War artifact; supports the book’s overall argument about permanence beyond the Cold War. — connects to: The Cold War paradigm dominated despite blind spots and anomalies
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 92