The peace-keeping rationale for overseas bases lacks supporting evidence.

Evidence

The primary argument in favor of maintaining bases and troops overseas has long been that they keep the peace and make the United States and the world safer and more secure. After six years of working on this book and fourteen years studying the issue, I have a simple response to that assertion: prove it. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1037

Categorization

• SEED: An essay dismantling the unexamined ‘bases keep the peace’ assumption by demanding the evidentiary burden.