Talk:Military base

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 * New US Military Bases: Side Effects Or Causes Of War? by Zoltan Grossman

This article is not NPOV and is not really about the subject of this article, which is about military bases in general. The article is an anti-US-military diatribe and doesn't belong on this page.

This criticism is silly. First of all, it is an external link that is pertinent to the issue. Secondly, it illustrates additional causes for military bases. Third, while critical of U.S. foreign policy, it is simply not an "anti-US-military diatribe."

I agree, nice article, kinda historic as it is pre iraq war, very nice pointers, hardly any anti-US diatribe, that is, if you consider criticism as diatribe.88.16.44.192 22:10, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

While I found it interesting parts, the linked article supposes a continuity of purpose between presidential administrations that I find quite hard to fathom. I don't think it's worthwhile to include it, especially as the author was only a doctoral student at the time; the article doesn't seem well-justified at all, making its points completely with circumstantial evidence. --69.227.176.75 22:31, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Severe problems
This article throws into the same basket concepts that are not same due to reliance on US use as opposed English language meaning
 * base - a location for a force or forces to operate from as a logistic centre in its area of operations
 * garrison - a force of occupation
 * station - a transit location
 * post - a temporary
 * dock - a naval repair facility
 * depot - a logistic facility
 * activity - not a place but a sometime used in US military jargon
 * magazine - ammunition storage
 * arsenal - ordnance storage
 * proving ground - ordnance testing location
 * armory - ordnance manufacturing installation
 * fort - a small fortification
 * camp - a temporary place of haling a force for rest
 * barracks - permanent military living quarters
 * caserne - German word for barrack
 * facility - a place where achieving a given result is facilitated
 * field - in a military locations sense, an equivalent to a firing range for testing ordnance design performance
 * reservation - an area reserved fro military activities
 * installation (in the generic) - a location where a certain unit of ordnance or (usually) communication equipment is positions due to location's suitability for its use

Suggest his is included--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 10:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

A base is for Air Force and Marine Corps while the Army calls them 'posts" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.114.139.203 (talk) 20:35, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Time goes by and the severe problem has not been addressed. I found myself here after describing a slave fort as a military installation. However these were owned by capitalist entrepreneurs who had their own military forces. Thus I agree that we need an article which encompasses the variety of installations and another article which deals with the different ways they can socially be organised.Leutha (talk) 09:43, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

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Bibliography for Environmental Impact Section
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

My name is Josh and over the next two months I will be working hard to add an Environmental Impact section to this article as part of my university WikiEducation project. To start here is a bibliography of sources that I plan to reference throughout this project:

Atherton, K. D. (2021, August 30 “U.S. forces are leaving a toxic environmental legacy in Afghanistan.” Scientific American. Retrieved May 26, 2022

Bae, Yooil & Han, Heejin. (2015). “Reality Revealed: U.S. Military Bases, Environmental Impacts, and Civil Society in South Korea.” Retrieved May 26, 2022

Jivnani, K., &; Kang, I. (2021, October 1). “Building Smarter Military Bases for Climate Resilient Communities.” Atlantic Council. Retrieved May 26, 2022

Lawrence, M. J., Stemberger, H. L. J., Zolderdo, A. J., Struthers, D. P., &; Cooke, S. J. (2015). “The effects of modern war and military activities on biodiversity and the environment.” Environmental Reviews, 23(4), 443–460. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2015-0039

Martini, E. A. (Ed.). (2015). “Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases.” University of Washington Press. Retrieved May 26, 2022

“Overseas military bases and environment.” Institute for Policy Studies. (2014, May 7). Retrieved May 26, 2022

Roels, C. (2019, January 28). “Military bases' contamination will affect water for generations.” Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved May 26, 2022

Sobczyk, N. (2018, January 30). “Half of U.S. military facilities vulnerable to extreme weather and climate risks.” Science. Retrieved May 26, 2022

Please feel free to leave a comment regarding your thoughts on these sources. I would especially appreciate any recommendations for sources that involve the environmental impact of military bases not owned by the United States; as the majority of content I was able to find is centred around bases owned by the United States. JoshuaERS (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:29, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: War and the Environment
— Assignment last updated by Karanaconda (talk) 18:37, 11 August 2022 (UTC)