Posted on 06/19/2022 12:07:48 PM PDT by robowombat
The only justifiable reason would be to have a place to send sad sacks that you want to punish.
because they speak English ?
It’s vast technology and Quantum Physicists?...
Answering the title question from the article, “It is the second-largest producer of cocoa in the world.”
I keep thinking that all — I mean ALL — FBI agents should be sent to work at Thule AFB in Greenland. Might help thin the herd.
The United States has hundreds of bases around the world. The vast majority are not manned. They are a designated area with, perhaps, a few buildings some of which are decades old and not occupied. At the start of the Gulf War a friend was a crewman on a US cargo plane that flew into what had been an allied air base in the Mediterranean during WWII. It was a tine waterless rock in the sea with an air strip, little vegetation and a suspiciously good runway although covered with sand. They landed and unloaded tons of cargo. Which, in a few days, was all you needed for a base...housing, cooking equipment, etc.
I’ve read there are some unknown quantities of “bases” in Africa that consist of a runway, a building and no stored assets. The assets are flown in. One of these was an operating drone base in mere days used to support something the substance of which has escaped my mind. What we have are agreements with many nations that allow the US the flexibility to move anything anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice. No one else in the world has anything like this and it’s necessary if our intent is to support any mission the government decides we must undertake.
Why would someone in Sri Lanka care? Did China approve this message?
“The only justifiable reason would be to have a place to send sad sacks that you want to punish.”
In the Navy it was Adak, Alaska.
Anybody Ghana answer this question???
The author is a socialist and writes article that promote a pro-socialist, anti-Western viewpoint.
Article is as expected.
Good post. These inactive facilities are the grist of paranoid obsessions for many intellectuals.
Opposing the jihadists operating in West Africa.
The only reason the government supports the base is that they know, no one will mess with them as long as the gringos are around. It's smart self preservation.
Which US Senators and Representatives have some connection to Ghana? Or senior military guys?
They’re all grifters now.
For the Army, Ft Richardson Alaska. TR’s monumentally screwed up son Kermit shot himself to death there in 1943 after FDR had him sent there at the request of his family to keep him from causing some publicity disgrace in the states.
Why do we need military in the US? I doubt there will be any need to use them here.
“The United States has hundreds of bases around the world. The vast majority are not manned. “
THOUSANDS.
There’s a Youtube channel dedicated to it. The “audit” by the Pentagon was so big, they didn’t “know” how big the numbers were and had to rely on a book author to find out how many bases the US has and how much was being spent.
The host said his clearance allowed him to go anywhere and ended up in an undisclosed military base in Belgiun and inside was AMERICA complete with malls, movie theaters, gyms etc. It was nuts. The US really is an empire.
All you have to do is look at a map. Its support for counter-terrorism operations in sub-Saharan Africa and as staging area to support shipping route protection - the Europe to South Africa link.
Should we be doing it? That’s a different question!
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