Lists of U.S. Military Bases Abroad, 1776-2021

Maps using a similar 2020 version of this data (freely downloadable at available at www.davidvine.net/unitedstatesofwar) appear in The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (University of California Press, 2020). Maps using the original 2015 version of this data (downloadable at www.basenation.us/maps) first appeared in Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2015).