The tool allows you to zoom in to get a satellite view and detailed information about each base. It also allows filtering the map or list of bases by country, type of government, date of opening, number of employees or occupied land area.

This visual database was designed and developed by World Beyond War to help journalists, activists, researchers and individual readers understand the immense problem of over-preparedness for war, which inevitably leads to international intimidation. , interference, threats, escalation and mass atrocities. By illustrating the extent of America's military outpost empire, World Beyond War hopes to draw attention to the larger issue of war preparations.

The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains this massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How was it created and how does it continue? Some of these physical facilities are on lands occupied as spoils of war.

Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of which are brutal and oppressive governments that benefit from the presence of the bases. In many cases, human beings have been displaced to make space for these military installations, often depriving people of agricultural land, adding enormous amounts of pollution to local water systems and air, and existing as an unwanted presence.

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