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| | The Costs of Empire Part 1: Starting With a Solid Base - Empire? - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The goal is to create a web of far-flung, lean, forward-operating bases, maintained in peacetime only by small permanent support units, with fighting forces deployed from the US when necessary. |
 | | During his recent Asian tour, General Richard Meyers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the US is likely to use the joint military training facility it is seeking to establish in northern Australia to pre-position equipment and material. |
 | | The 2003 Base Status Report fails to mention, for instance, any garrisons in Kosovo - even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel, built in 1999 and maintained ever since by Kellogg, Brown & Root. |
| www.globalpolicy.org /empire/intervention/2004/0212solidbase.htm (2023 words) |
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