Roosevelt planned a permanent postwar global base network before Pearl Harbor

Evidence

Even before World War II started, Roosevelt wanted to use far-flung bases to harness the newfound power of long-distance aircraft as an implicit threat to other powers and protection for the country. As early as 1939—before the destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain—Roosevelt expressed interest in obtaining new island bases in the Caribbean. After the war started, he pushed his military leaders to develop plans for a postwar network of military bases around the globe that could ensure U.S. dominance. At Roosevelt’s direction, military officials began preparing for the postwar period in November 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into the war. By 1943, a Joint Chiefs of Staff paper declared that “adequate bases, owned or controlled by the United States, are essential and their acquisition and development must be considered as amongst our primary war aims.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 76

Even before World War II started, Roosevelt wanted to use far-flung bases to harness the newfound power of long-distance aircraft as an implicit threat to other powers and protection for the country. As early as 1939—before the destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain—Roosevelt expressed interest in obtaining new island bases in the Caribbean. After the war started, he pushed his military leaders to develop plans for a postwar network of military bases around the globe that could ensure U.S. dominance. At Roosevelt’s direction, military officials began preparing for the postwar period in November 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into the war. By 1943, a Joint Chiefs of Staff paper declared that “adequate bases, owned or controlled by the United States, are essential and their acquisition and development must be considered as amongst our primary war aims.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the conventional story that postwar bases grew organically out of wartime necessity; dovetails with the permanence-vs-temporary theme opening the chapter.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 76