Description: Analyzing the modern status of military bases and the diplomacy that defines their location and access, this book explores the global basing networks of the world's major military powers--their type, location, and the politics and economics of their acquisition. It provides data on armaments, intelligence, communications, research, and space facilities; tables and maps that display U.S. and Soviet global networks; and the various military roles and nuclear deterrence capabilities for global power projection and support of client states in the Third World. Harkavy also discusses emerging political and technological developments that could alter basing diplomacy.
Review Quotes: "A sourcebook for specialists involved in international security studies, this book also promises to be valuable for its portrait of the US and Soviet global reach...at the height of their respective foreign military commitments."--Choice
"Harkavy has provided by far the most complete reference guide to an issue that is bound to grow in importance in the years to come."--Orbisu