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The Global Network of US Military Bases Provide the Infrastructure For Permanent War
This Is Hell
03 Feb 2016
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by our friends at This Is Hell

For two generations now, the US has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed outside its borders. US troops are in more countries than the Mongols, the Romans or the Brit empires in their day, and the US maintains more military bases than embassies or consulates. Is it any wonder that the first resort is usually to war?

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