In addition to the books, articles, and other works cited in the notes, the following are some helpful websites for learning more about U.S. military bases overseas and their impacts. (This selection is focused mostly on English-language materials and is far from exhaustive.) Additional information, articles, and other resources are available at davidvine.net.
GENERAL RESOURCES
Base Structure Reports [Department of Defense]: www.acq.osd.mil/ie
Militarism Watch: forusa.org/groups/services/militarism-watch
Military Installations [Department of Defense]: www.militaryinstallations.dod.mil
“Mission Creep” investigation: www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/08/table-contents
ROK Drop blog: www.rokdrop.net
Security Assistance Monitor: www.securityassistance.org
BASE CONVERSION AND ALTERNATIVES
Base Tuono, Italy: www.basetuono.it/en
Bonn International Center for Conversion: www.bicc.de
Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment: www.oea.gov
Institute for Policy Studies: www.ips-dc.org/projects/peace-economy-transitions
Presidio of San Francisco Trust: www.presidio.gov
BASE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Overviews
Transnational Institute: www.tni.org/archives/act/17124 and www.tni.org/primer/foreign-military-bases-and-global-campaign-close-them
Africa
America’s Codebook: Africa: codebookafrica.wordpress.com
Chagos Refugees Group [Diego Garcia]: www.chagosrefugeesgroup.org
Lalit de Klas [Mauritius]: www.lalitmauritius.org
Resist Africom: org.salsalabs.com/o/1552/t/5734/content.jsp?content_KEY=3855
UK Chagos Support Association [Diego Garcia]: www.chagossupport.org.uk
Asia
Anti-Bases Campaign Australia: www.anti-bases.org
Close the Base [Okinawa]: www.closethebase.org
Durebang (My Sister’s Place) [South Korea]: www.durebang.org
National Campaign for Eradication of Crimes by U.S. Troops in Korea: www.usacrime.or.kr
No Base Stories Korea: nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com
Peace Philosophy Centre blog [Japan]: peacephilosophy.blogspot.com
Save Jeju [South Korea]: www.savejejunow.org
Save Life Center [Henoko, Okinawa]: www.geocities.jp/nobasehenoko
Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea: www.spark946.org
Takae blog [Okinawa]: takae.ti-da.net
US for Okinawa: us-for-okinawa.blogspot.com
Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific: www.asiapacificinitiative.org
Europe
Antonio Mazzeo’s blog [Italy]: antoniomazzeoblog.blogspot.com
Bombspotting [Belgium]: www.vredesactie.be/en
Comitato Pace e Disarmo Campania [Naples, Italy]: www.pacedisarmo.org
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases [UK]: www.caab.org.uk
DFG-VK [Germany]: www.dfg-vk.de
Etz Langt’s [Ansbach, Germany]: www.etz-langts.de
GI Café Germany: www.gicafegermany.com
Global Peace and Justice Coalition [Turkey]: www.kureselbak.org
No Dal Molin [Vicenza, Italy]: www.nodalmolin.it
No MUOS [Sicily, Italy]: www.nomuos.org/en
Shannon Watch [Ireland]: www.shannonwatch.org
Latin America
Colombia No Bases Coalition: www.colombianobases.org
COPINH [Honduras]: www.copinh.org
School of the Americas Watch: www.soaw.org
Vieques Vive La Lucha Continua: facebook.com/viequesvive
United States
Carlton Meyer overseas base closure list: www.g2mil.com/OBCL.htm
DMZ Hawaii/Aloha ‘Aina: www.dmzhawaii.org
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space: www.space4peace.org
Guam Chamber of Commerce: www.guamchamber.com.gu/committees/armed-forces-committee
Save Pagan Island [Northern Mariana Islands]: savepaganisland.org
We Are Guåhan [Guam]: weareguahan.com
Women for Genuine Security: www.genuinesecurity.org
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
Agent Orange on Okinawa: www.jonmitchellinjapan.com/agent-orange-on-okinawa.html
Center for Public Environmental Oversight: www.cpeo.org
FAMILY MEMBERS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL
Blue Star Families: www.bluestarfam.org
Department of Defense Military OneSource: www.militaryonesource.mil/phases-family-life
National Military Families Association: www.militaryfamily.org
Military Families Speak Out: www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com
Yellow Ribbon Support Foundation: www.yellowribbonsupport.com
FILM
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands: theinsularempire.blogspot.com
Living Along the Fenceline: alongthefenceline.com
Occupy Turkey: Resistance in the Baseworld: amyaustinholmes.com/film
Restrepo: restrepothemovie.com
Standing Army: www.snagfilms.com/films/title/standing_army
Stealing a Nation [Diego Garcia]: johnpilger.com/videos/stealing-a-nation
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency: www.afhra.af.mil
U.S. Army Center for 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.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/SitePages/Home.aspx
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: www.history.navy.mil
MAPS, MUSEUMS, PHOTOGRAPHY
Civil Rights Struggle, African -American GIs, and Germany: www.aacvr-germany.org
“Fifty-One US Military Outposts”: www.mishkahenner.com/filter/works/Fifty-One-US-Military-Outposts
Google Earth map of the world’s foreign bases: www.tni.org/archives/act/17252
Guantánamo Public Memory Project: gitmomemory.org
“Limit Telephotography” [domestic U.S. bases]: www.paglen.com/?l=work&s=limit
Rendition Project: www.therenditionproject.org.uk
“Traces of the Soviet Empire” [former Soviet bases]: www.ericlusito.com
“United Bases of America” map: news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/28/graphic-mapping-a-superpower-sized-military
“U.S. Drone and Surveillance Flight Bases in Africa”: publicintelligence.net/us-drones-in-africa
“U.S. Empire” map: www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?usempire
MILITARY SPENDING, CONTRACTING, AND CONTRACTOR ABUSE
Costs of National Security Trade-offs tool: www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/trade-offs
Department of Defense Budget Materials: comptroller.defense.gov/BudgetMaterials.aspx
Department of Defense Contract Announcements: www.defense.gov/contracts
House Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee: appropriations.house.gov/subcommittees/subcommittee/?IssueID=35986
Senate Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee: www.appropriations.senate.gov/subcommittee/military-construction-veterans-affairs-and-related-agencies
Special Commission on Wartime Contracting: www.wartimecontracting.gov [archived]
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction: www.sigar.mil
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction: www.sigir.mil [archived]
SEXUAL ASSAULT
Department of Defense Safe Helpline: www.safehelpline.org
Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response: www.sapr.mil
RAINN: www.rainn.org/types-of-sexual-assault/military-sexual-trauma
Service Women’s Action Network: www.servicewomen.org
U.S. VETERANS
Department of Labor Veterans’ Employment and Training Service: www.dol.gov/vets
Department of Veterans Affairs Resource Directory: www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/nrd
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association Referral Program: www.iava.org/rrrp-contact-us
Iraq Veterans Against the War: www.ivaw.org
Veterans Crisis Line: www.veteranscrisisline.net
Service Members, Veterans, and Families Assistance Center: www.samhsa.gov/smvf-ta-center
The Soldiers Project: www.thesoldiersproject.org
WAR AND ITS COSTS
American Friends Service Committee: www.afsc.org/key-issues/issue/peace-policy-advocacy
Code Pink: www.codepink.org/bring_our_war_dollars_home
Costs of War project: www.costsofwar.org
Global Campaign on Military Spending: www.demilitarize.org
“Move the Money”: www.peace-action.org/issues/move-the-money
War costs spending counters: www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of