This is a highly abbreviated guide to resources I have found particularly helpful in conducting research about and attempting to understand the history of U.S. wars, U.S. Empire and imperialism, U.S. military bases, and related topics of militarism, militarization, and the Military Industrial Congressional Complex. The books, articles, films, videos, and other works cited in the book’s endnotes provide a more exhaustive, but obviously still partial, list. The resources here and in the endnotes focus on English-language materials; there are many other important resources in other languages.
For current and historical lists of U.S. bases abroad, see my spreadsheets at www.basenation.us/learn-more.
Additional resources are on my websites www.basenation.us and www.davidvine.net.
Air Force Historical Research Agency: www.afhra.af.mil.
Antibase movements past and present, crowd-sourced list: https://bit.ly/2CUMcUg.
Center for Public Environmental Oversight, documenting military base contamination: www.cpeo.org/milit.html.
Coalition against U.S. Foreign Military Bases: https://noforeignbases.org.
CODEPINK, women-led organization working to end U.S. wars and support peace: www.codepink.org.
Congressional Research Service, reports on the U.S. military and war: www.fas.org/sgp/crs/.
Costs of War Project, Brown University, reports on the human and financial costs of the post-2001 U.S. wars: www.costsofwar.org.
COVID-19 Global Solidarity Coalition, Manifesto, and other information: www.covidglobalsolidarity.org.
“Fifty-One US Military Outposts,” satellite photographs of military bases worldwide: https://mishkahenner.com/Fifty-One-US-Military-Outposts.
Global Campaign on Military Spending: http://demilitarize.org.
GlobalSecurity.org, data and information about militaries worldwide: https://globalsecurity.org.
Government Accountability Office, reports on military and war-related issues: www.gao.gov/browse/topic/National_Defense.
Guantánamo Public Memory Project: https://gitmomemory.org.
National Priorities Project, “Cost of National Security”: www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/; and “Trade-Offs: Your Money, Your Choices”: www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/trade-offs.
Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition: www.overseasbases.net.
Peace Action: www.peaceaction.org/what-we-do/campaigns/pentagon-spending.
Radical Cartography, “U.S. Empire” maps: www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?usempire.
Security Assistance Monitor, data on U.S. military and related aid abroad: www.securityassistance.org.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, “SIPRI Military Expenditure Database”: www.sipri.org/databases/milex.
TomDispatch, articles on war, imperialism, the Military Industrial Congressional Complex, other topics: www.tomdispatch.com.
Transnational Institute, primer on foreign military bases: www.tni.org/primer/foreign-military-bases-and-global-campaign-close-them.
U.S. Army Center of Military History: www.history.army.mil.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History: www.usace.army.mil/About/History.aspx.
U.S. Marine Corps History Division: www.usmcu.edu/Research/History-Division/.
U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command: www.history.navy.mil.
Women for Genuine Security: www.genuinesecurity.org.