base

Latin ; fransk: Basis, grundlag.
Militært støttepunkt, station eller installation(er), hvorfra militære styrker opererer og eller får forsyninger, herunder efterretningsoplysninger, fra uden for sit eget territorium. Nogle baser udstyres med et forsvarsområde (Ground Defence Areas) som udvider basens forsvarslinjer ud over dens normale fredstidsområde. Indenfor forsvarsområdet kan militæret ved hjælp af undtagelseslovgivning evakuere civile og ødelægge deres huse, livsgrundlag og ejendom for at skabe brandfri zoner eller kampplads.
Amerikanske baser kan være inddelt i følgende katagorier: Main Operating Bases, Standby Deployment Base, Storage/Support Facilities, Communications Facilities og COB-baser.
The 2003 US Defense Department's "Base Structure Report" lists 702 foreign bases owned or leased by the Pentagon, with about 6,000 more installations in the US and its possessions. As vast as this network seems, the report inexplicably fails to include any locations in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Qatar and Kosovo. And to these must now be added at least 14 garrisons in Iraq.
Then there is "under-reporting". In Asia, the 10 US Marine Corps facilities on Okinawa, including the sprawling 485-hectare USMC Futenma Air Station, have only one entry. The array of intelligence gathering and other military installations in Britain are nowhere to be found in the report, possibly because they all are technically Royal Air Force facilities. Moreover, while a surface-based "boost-phase" missile defense system to counter North Korean missiles can be deployed on ships in the international waters of the Sea of Japan, effective coverage by a surface-based system to counter Iranian missiles would require launch sites in at least Afghanistan and Iraq (and possibly Turkmenistan), according to a Congressional Budget Office study completed in July.
Se også: US Bases and other overseas military presence Program ; US DoD Base Realignment and Closure ; basepolitik ; Camp ; Camp Ederle, Vencenza ; Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) ; US Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ; Cooperative Security Site ; US Defense Environmental Restoration Program ; Cooperative security locations (CSLs) ; Diego Garcia ; database ; Forward operating locations (FOLs) ; forward-operating sites ; Formerly Used Defense Sites ; Fylingdales ; US the Global Posture Review ; Greenham Common ; the international network for the abolition of foreign military bases ; Karup ; kemi ; lyttestation ; munitions and explosives of concern ; militærstation ; Molesworth ; U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ; UK Sites ; the US Overseas Basing Commission ; perimeter ; Pluto ; Roosevelt Roads Naval Station - Puerto Rico ; staging base ; theater architecture ; SOSUS ; Thulebasen ; USAFE ; UXO ; Yokosuka - Japan.

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US Air Force Documents.
American Forces in Italy. / William M. Arkin ; Richard Fieldhouse. I: END Papers, 1984:8 s. 64-79.
US Base Structure Report 1999
http://www.dod.mil/faq/pis/sites.html.
Bombs in the Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant Current or Historical U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions. Compiled by Stephen I. Schwartz, Director, U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project - As of August 2002 - (Bases and facilities with active nuclear weapons, weapons-related and/or naval nuclear propulsion missions).
Campbell, Duncan: America's base motives. I: New Statesman, 1982:2700/2701 s. 12-13.
Campbell, Duncan: Bases build-up. I: New Statesman, 1983: 2744 s. 12-13.
Cold War International History Project Virtual Archive 2.0 : Foreign military bases in Latin America.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Subject&item=foreign%20military%20bases%20in%20Latin%20America
Department of Defense : Base Structure Report : (A Summary of DoD's Real Property Inventory) Fiscal Year 2005 Baseline.
- Washington : Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations & Environment).
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/20050527_2005BSR.pdf
DOD, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, Statistical Information Analysis Division, "Military Personnel Historical Reports: Active Duty Military Personnel by Regional Area and by Country," at
www.dior.whs.mil/mmid/military/history/309hist.htm (October 19, 2004).
DoD Announces Installation Realignment in Germany. July 29, 2005.
Fletcher, Harry R.: Air Force Bases : Volume II : Air Bases Outside the United States of America.
(Reference series ; United States Air Force Historical Research Agency, Center for Air Force History United States Air Force. - Washington, D.C.: 1993. -219 pp.)
http://www.raf-upper-heyford.org/USAF_BASES_OUTSIDE_THE_US.pdf
Forbes, Keith Archibald: American military bases in Bermuda 1941 to 1995.
http://www.bermuda-online.org/milquit.htm
GAO; United States Government Accountability Office: Military Bases : Observations on DOD's 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Selection Process and Recommendations : Statement Before the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-905.
GAO: Report to Congressional Committees January 2005:
Military Base Closures
: Updated Status of Prior Base Realignments and Closures GAO-05-138.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-138
Garamone, Jim: US Air Force Fleet Experiencing Pains of Age.
Garamone, Jim: U.S. Military Footprint in Europe Changing to Meet Strategy.
Kane, Tim: Troop Deployment Dataset, 1950-2003.
The Heritage Foundation, Center for Data Analysis, October 2004, at
www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/troopsdb.cfm.
Lucia Olivera and Jon Casale provided invaluable research assistance in preparing this data set. See the Appendix for data and methodology details.
Lachowski, Zdzislaw : Foreign Military Bases in Eurasia.
SIPRI Policy Paper No. 18
http://books.sipri.org/product_info?c_product_id=339
http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP18.pdf
Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy. / Frederick J. Shaw. Editor. - Washington DC : US Air Force History and Museums Program, 2004. - 228 s. - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a476351.pdf
Luber, Burkhard: Bedrohungs Atlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 1982. - ISBN 3-7795-7371-7.
Martel, William C.: Bases abroad : the global foreign military presence.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7649/
Miller, John M.: Bases and Battleships : Foreign presence of troops, bases and navies, and their political, military and social impacts. A new focus for peace movments. 1989. - ISBN 91-85678-85-6
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Division of Environmental Quality: Federal Facilities.
Pilger, John: 'Paradise Cleansed' : Our Deportation of the People of Diego Garcia is a Crime That Cannot Stand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1317945,00.html
The Monthly Review: Editorial - http://www.monthlyreview.org/0302editr.htm.
Smith, Colonel Daniel: US military on the scent of oil
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FK20Aa01.html

Sperling, Vibeke: USA-baser kræves væk fra Centralasien. I: Politiken, 07/08/2005.
The status and location of the military installations of the member states of the European Union and their potential role for the European security and defence policy (ESDP). / : James Rogers and Luis Simón. - Brussels : European Parliament, 2009.
Trige Andersen, Nina: Bomber i Baghaven. I: Information, 10/11/2007.
Trige Andersen, Nina: USA bruger Europa som affyringsrampe. I: Information, 10/11/2007.
Transnational Institute:
See the world's foreign military bases from outer space
http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=17252&menu=11e

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