Frontier bases functioned as the advance agent of US land conquest.

Evidence

Neither superior technology nor an overwhelming number of settlers made up the mainspring of the birth of the United States or the spread of its power over the entire world. Rather, the chief cause was the colonialist settler-state’s willingness to eliminate whole civilizations of people in order to possess their land. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Frontier forts against Native nations predated Guantánamo as US bases abroad.; Military bases historically acquire land through varied means, often by force; Frontier forts enabled U.S. westward expansion into Native lands (+1 more)

Related

• US frontier forts operated as foreign bases enabling westward conquest (similarity 0.85)
• The U.S. military repeatedly displaced indigenous peoples to build bases, impoverishing them (similarity 0.84)
• Military base land is frequently acquired by outright seizure rather than purchase (similarity 0.84)
• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion (similarity 0.84)
• Frontier forts intended as containment lines instead drove US expansion (similarity 0.82)
• Western frontier forts functioned as instruments of Native land conquest. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Frontier forts enabled U.S. westward expansion into Native lands #corroborates (0.85)
• Military bases historically acquire land through varied means, often by force #expands (0.60)
• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion #expands (0.60) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229