Two doctrinal principles, redundancy and strategic denial, drive overseas base accumulation.
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- Overseas bases can increase global danger rather than security (similarity 0.84)
- Redundancy and strategic denial drive the military to keep bases it barely uses (similarity 0.83)
- Overseas bases enable interventionist wars rather than defensive protection (similarity 0.81)
- Judgments about overseas base security value rest on prior beliefs, not evidence (similarity 0.79)
- Postwar base retention was justified by redundancy and strategic denial principles. (similarity 0.79)
- The security benefits of overseas bases rest on unproven deterrence theory (similarity 0.78)