Judgments about overseas base security value rest on prior beliefs, not evidence

Evidence

This is not to say that overseas bases never contribute to security. The intellectually honest truth is that evaluating the effect overseas bases have on security is extremely difficult. Often, if not always, people come down on one side or another based not on evidence but on a set of underlying beliefs and assumptions about military force and foreign policy. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1040

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