Skip to content
Visualbases
  • OverviewExpand
    • Overview
    • App 1: Google Earth
    • App 2: Web-Viewer KML file
    • App 3: OpenStreetBrowser
    • Benefit from VisualBases
  • Data AllocationExpand
    • Overview
    • Definition of Terms
    • Kind of Location
    • Key Terms defined by Tags
  • Bases and CampaignsExpand
    • Documentation and Sources
    • Global Campaigns
    • International Congress
  • DeutschExpand
    • Übersicht (deutsch)
    • Einzelbeiträge (Updates) über fremde Militärbasen
    • Hintergründe zur aktuellen US-Militärpräsenz in Europa
    • Globale US-Militärpräsenz und die Rolle Deutschlands
    • Militarisierung des Mittelmeers
    • US-Militärbasen und Kommandozentralen in Deutschland
    • US-Militärbasen und Defender Europe 21
    • US Manöver Defender Europe 20
  • Impressum
Visualbases

Documentation and Sources

Home / Bases and Campaigns / Documentation and Sources

Content

Toggle
  • Wikipedia Compilations
  • US-Sources and Compilations
  • Articles and Presentations
  • Other Visualisations
  • Books and Booklets

Wikipedia Compilations

General overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_military_installations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases

US Foreign Bases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_installations
DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Milit%C3%A4rbasen_der_Vereinigten_Staaten_im_Ausland
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4rst%C3%BCtzpunkte_der_Vereinigten_Staaten_in_Lateinamerika_und_in_der_Karibik

US Forces in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Germany
US Forces in South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_South_Korea

Eastern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_East
Radar Stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Integrated_Air_Defense_System

More info: General remarks how to use Wikipedia

US-Sources and Compilations

Bases in detail: https://militarybases.com/ not affiliated with US government)

DoD Websites: https://www.defense.gov/Resources/Military-Departments/

Official DoD Base Structure Reports:
Summaries with amount and size of sites in the Fiscal Years: 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2004
http://files.visualbases.org/pdf/BSR_Summaries_2004-2018.pdf
actual Base Structure Reports: https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/bsi/BEI_Library.html
see also (David Vine): https://www.basenation.us/bsr.html

Military Installations: https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/

Stars and Stripes: https://www.stripes.com (Paywall)

Globalsecurity.org: https://www.globalsecurity.org (Paywall)

Operation Military Kids: https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/us-military-bases-in-europe/

Articles and Presentations

see also: Updates about foreign military bases (on the start page)

Webinar about US foreign military bases
by Leah Bolger (World beyond War, March 2021)

Bases, Bases, Everywhere … Except in the Pentagon’s Report
by Nick Turse, Counterpunch  Jan 2019

AFRICOM’s Secret Empire: US Military Turns Africa Into ‘Laboratory’ Of Modern Warfare
The U.S. military already plans to expand its massive military footprint in Africa and elsewhere to the tune of “several million dollars” a year and thousands of troops.
by MintPress News Desk

Other Visualisations

World BEYOND War
Overview / Campaign Close all bases: https://worldbeyondwar.org/bases/
Direct Link: https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases/

A selection of 51 satellite photographs of US military bases worldwide can be seen here:
https://mishkahenner.com/Fifty-One-US-Military-Outposts


Books and Booklets

David Vine: The United States of War

A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
by David Vine, Oct. 2020
More Information: https://www.davidvine.net/unitedstatesofwar.html

David Vine: Base Nation

How U.S. Military Bases abroad harm America and the World
by David Vine, 2015
More information: https://www.basenation.us/

UK Military Bases

by Dave Webb, Sept 2017
Download: https://files.visualbases.org/pdf/2017-09_DaveWebb_US-bases-in-the-UK.pdf

A Time Bomb Underground

The military as the main responsible party for a global environmental disaster
by Karl-Heinz Peil, Jan. 2021

Download: http://info.umwelt-militaer.org/pdf/2021/2021-01_PFAS_engl_Web.pdf

Resistance against Military Bases

Booklet with contributions to the "International Congress on Military Bases and their Importance for Global Wars"
in Kaiserslautern, Germany, 8-9 September 2017
Published by the campaign "Stopp Air Base Ramstein", edited by Karl-Heinz Peil
Download: http://files.visualbases.org/pdf/2018-06_MilitaryBases_Booklet_Web.pdf
(June 2018)

German edition  (2017)
Download: http://files.visualbases.org/pdf/2017_Basenkongress_Broschuere_Web.pdf

Country, Location or Term

Search

Location Search in OpenStreetBrowser with Military Layer

Region, Kind of Location and Facilities

List of Locations

    Visualisation Options

    Country, Location or Term

    Search

    Region, Kind of Location and Facilities

    List of all Categories and Tags | List of all Locations | List of Locations in Germany | Country Codes | WBW Visual Database (US Foreign Military Bases) | Russian Visualisation

    Scroll to top
    • Overview
      • Overview
      • App 1: Google Earth
      • App 2: Web-Viewer KML file
      • App 3: OpenStreetBrowser
      • Benefit from VisualBases
    • Data Allocation
      • Overview
      • Definition of Terms
      • Kind of Location
      • Key Terms defined by Tags
    • Bases and Campaigns
      • Documentation and Sources
      • Global Campaigns
      • International Congress
    • Deutsch
      • Übersicht (deutsch)
      • Einzelbeiträge (Updates) über fremde Militärbasen
      • Hintergründe zur aktuellen US-Militärpräsenz in Europa
      • Globale US-Militärpräsenz und die Rolle Deutschlands
      • Militarisierung des Mittelmeers
      • US-Militärbasen und Kommandozentralen in Deutschland
      • US-Militärbasen und Defender Europe 21
      • US Manöver Defender Europe 20
    • Impressum
    Search