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Monday, July 16, 2012

Tomgram: ''David Vine, U.S. Empire of Bases Grows''

From TomDispatch

''How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War''

''Since the “Black Hawk Down” deaths in Somalia almost 20 years ago, we’ve heard little, if anything, about American military casualties in Africa (other than a strange report last week about three special operations commandos killed, along with three women identified by U.S. military sources as “Moroccan prostitutes,” in a mysterious car accident in Mali). The growing number of patients arriving at Ramstein from Africa pulls back a curtain on a significant transformation in twenty-first-century U.S. military strategy.''

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