Overseas bases can increase global danger rather than security
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- Overseas bases enable interventionist wars rather than defensive protection (similarity 0.92)
- Judgments about overseas base security value rest on prior beliefs, not evidence (similarity 0.86)
- Two doctrinal principles, redundancy and strategic denial, drive overseas base accumulation. (similarity 0.84)
- Base infrastructure that outlives its purpose actively creates insecurity (similarity 0.83)
- Overseas bases make war more likely by lowering its cost (similarity 0.83)
- The security benefits of overseas bases rest on unproven deterrence theory (similarity 0.81)
- US overseas bases make war more likely by easing military action (similarity 0.81)
- Overseas bases lock the U.S. into a permanently militarized, less-secure society. (similarity 0.80)
- Overseas bases create entrenched constituencies dependent on their continuation (similarity 0.80)
- Historical base cases cannot prove that overseas bases provide security (similarity 0.80)
- Overseas bases spawn self-perpetuating communities dependent on their continued operation (similarity 0.80)
- The U.S. holds more foreign bases than any empire in history (similarity 0.80)
- Deterrence research ignores the long-term deterrence that overseas bases supposedly provide (similarity 0.80)
- US bases near China and Russia borders raise confrontation risk (similarity 0.80)
- The overseas base network is what enables sustained distant warfare (similarity 0.80)