Offshore bases lower the threshold for launching interventionist wars

Evidence

In the absence of a superpower enemy today, however, the argument that bases many thousands of miles from U.S. shores are necessary to defend the United States—or even its allies—is much harder to sustain. To the contrary, the global collection of bases has generally been offensive in nature, making it all too easy to launch interventionist wars of choice that have resulted in repeated disasters, costing millions of lives from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 35

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 35