Military base land is frequently acquired by outright seizure rather than purchase

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Overseas bases ease the waging of foreign wars and make war likelier; Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229; The Pentagon routinely violates the law requiring cash settlements for returned bases — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 775 (+2 more)

Related

• Military bases historically acquire land through varied means, often by force (similarity 0.87)
• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion (similarity 0.85)
• Frontier bases functioned as the advance agent of US land conquest. (similarity 0.84)
• The U.S. military repeatedly displaced indigenous peoples to build bases, impoverishing them (similarity 0.84)
• US bases followed and assisted seizure of half of Mexico’s territory (similarity 0.78)
• Base site selection tracks landowner powerlessness more than strategic need. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion #exemplifies (0.55) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229