Permanent overseas basing is a quasi-religious tenet of U.S. policy

Evidence

Since the end of World War II, the idea that our country should have a large collection of bases and hundreds of thousands of troops permanently stationed overseas has been a quasireligious dictum of U.S. foreign and national security policy. The opening words of a U.S. Army War College study bluntly declare: “U.S. national security strategy requires access to overseas military bases.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 22

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘quasireligious dictum’ framing connects to the ritual/sacrifice lens from the reader’s ‘On Sacrifice’ article.