The global base network is what enables the U.S. to wage distant wars

Evidence

While this situation may lead to a suspension of war between the nuclear powers (or so we all must hope), it scarcely prevents them from engaging in military adventures outside their own territorial domains. The two superpowers in particular engage in what might be called “orchestrated wars” in peripheral areas of military strength. By these I mean military encounters, with the governments of other states or with guerilla movements or both, in which the troops of the superpower are not necessarily even engaged at all, but where that power is a prime organising influence. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 187 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The US military can deploy power faster than any rival without foreign bases.; Easier access to bases makes US military intervention more likely; Overseas bases can increase global danger rather than security (+10 more)

Related

• Overseas bases reveal America’s permanent war footing and militarized economy (similarity 0.87)
• Easier access to bases makes US military intervention more likely (similarity 0.86)
• The overseas base network is what enables sustained distant warfare (similarity 0.86)
• The US military can deploy power faster than any rival without foreign bases. (similarity 0.85)
• Without a superpower rival, overseas bases enable offensive wars of choice (similarity 0.85)
• Postwar US power substituted a global base network for direct colonial control (similarity 0.84)
• The global base network predates and exceeds any empire’s military footprint in history (similarity 0.83)
• The destroyers-for-bases deal transformed the US into a global military power. (similarity 0.83)
• US overseas bases make war more likely by easing military action (similarity 0.83)
• US military can project power farther than any rival without overseas bases (similarity 0.82)
• New bases near China and Russia may create the threats they guard against (similarity 0.82)
• Superpowers wage wars abroad through proxies rather than their own troops (similarity 0.81)
• Offshore bases lower the threshold for launching interventionist wars (similarity 0.81)
• The U.S. can project force globally without any permanent overseas bases. (similarity 0.81)
• Overseas bases enable interventionist wars rather than defensive protection (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Overseas bases ease the waging of foreign wars and make war likelier #corroborates (0.75)
• Superpowers wage wars abroad through proxies rather than their own troops #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 187
• Foreign militaries increasingly become functional extensions of the US military. #expands (0.60)