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I wrote about this topic a few years ago.
How a modern EMPIRE, in the 21st century with billions of security needs, real or existential, should conduct itself.
This theory and doctrine levitates around the orbit that it is IMPOSSIBLE to control everything, and you don't need to be in the scene of the potential action through military bases, in order to effectively manage it in the best interests of the USA, as a leviathan security state.
The GLOBALISTS may desire the USA to have 1,000 military bases around the world, and 1,000's more CIA nests.
The cheerleaders of the defunct British Empire may desire the USA to have 1000 military bases around the world.
The cheerleaders of the defunct Roman Empire may desire the USA to have 1000 military bases around the world.
Israel cheerleaders of the defunct 'Yinon Plan and Eretz Israel' (1982) may desire the USA to have 1000 military bases around the world.
But in the age of EMP, LASER WEAPONS, STEALTH PLANES, JET CARGO PLANES, SPACE CAPABILITIES, ICBM'S, NUCLEAR SUBMARINES, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, satellites and super-computers.....the strategic thinkers of the ROMAN, BRITISH and Israeli empires are out of touch and out of date.
AND, invariably American military bases abroad especially, become cesspools of extreme corruption that BASTARDISES the fighting ability of the American armed forces. They become detached from American civil and criminal law, and with time exists in their own bubble of crime and corruption. The Romans also had this problem, and they solved this by CONSTANTLY moving around the Legions. This is not possible with the 1000 American military bases around the world.
Halford Mackinder
Military bases around the world
Modern 21st Century warfare
______________________________________________________________Many of Washington’s NATO and other coalition allies in Afghanistan are quickly leaving the country, and most are expected to be out well before the September 11th withdrawal deadline set by President Biden, Stars and Stripes reported on Friday.
The Netherlands has begun pulling its troops out, and the Dutch Defense Ministry said last week that the withdrawal should be finished by the end of July. Austria, a non-NATO country, is also expected to have its troops out by sometime in July.
Portuguese soldiers who were stationed to protect the Kabul airport are expected to be out by the end of May, although some high-ranking officers will stay a bit longer. Some countries have already left altogether, including New Zealand, Croatia, and Spain.
Germany, whose troop numbers were higher than any other country besides the US, is expected to be one of the last countries to leave. Berlin had roughly 1,000 troops in Afghanistan before the withdrawal started. German officials have said that a July 4th deadline to get out was being considered.
The rapid withdrawals could be an attempt to avoid any renewed attacks from the Taliban. Because President Biden broke the US-Taliban peace deal by pushing back the original May 1st withdrawal deadline, the Taliban has threatened to start attacking foreign troops again, but so far, they have refrained from doing so.
A report from Afghanistan’s Tolo News said that the US was in talks with the Taliban to push up Biden’s September 11th withdrawal deadline to sometime in July. Earlier this week, US Central Command said the withdrawal process was somewhere between 13 and 20 percent complete, which means the US could be on track for a July pullout.
While the US and NATO are removing their troops, the Western powers are looking to maintain influence and plan to continue supporting the Afghan military financially, and the US will likely maintain some sort of covert presence at the very least. NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that the alliance will train Afghan forces outside of Afghanistan, an option that is also being considered by the US.
