A review by dominiquefragments
Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World by David Vine

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

I went into this book with absolutely zero knowledge about the United States' foreign presence and came out of it with a wealth of information. This book should be required reading in schools. So much mystery and obscurity surrounds the military and where exactly all of the money it devours goes. This book shed light on horrifying and enraging issues and the bottomless money pit that is the US military. It really hit a chord when the author brought up how much different the US would look if even a fourth of the money spent went into education, healthcare, and transportation within the US.