Bases Abroad: The Global Foreign Military Presence

Front Cover
Oxford University Press, 1989 - 389 pages
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.

From inside the book

Contents

Introduction
2
Notes and references
22
The superpowers global naval deployments and
41
Coercive diplomacy
63
Air force facilities
73
b Trends in US and Soviet access to airfields or airspace in 1987
99
Summary
100
Groundforce
109
British French and other nations technical facilities abroad
212
Other nations C³I and space facilities
215
Conclusions
216
Notes and references
218
Research and environmental facilities
231
Research
232
US research and environmental facilities
233
Environmental facilities
242

Soviet foreignbased ground forces
114
Secondtier powers foreignbased ground forces
116
Invasion forces surrogates advisers defence planning manoeuvres training and so on
118
Multilateral peacekeeping forces
128
Missiles
133
Surfacetosurface missiles
136
PreINF Treaty missile deployments in Europe
138
FROG and SS21 battalions in Eastern Europe and Mongolia
141
Surfacetoair missiles
142
The future
144
Notes and references
145
intelligence space and communications
149
A historical note
154
a breakdown
156
US technical facilities abroad
158
Location of known Loran CD transmitters and monitoring
161
Some major communications systems and subsystems
167
The AUTOSEVOCOM network in FR Germany
169
The NATO ACE HIGH and TARE networks
171
Voice of America facilities throughout the world
175
US global facilities for C³I
176
Landbased SIGINT facilities
181
Locations of DEW Line and CADIN Pinetree Line radar sites
191
The US Sound Surveillance System
195
Foreignbased AFTAC seismometers and seismic arrays
198
Soviet technical facilities abroad
199
Soviet intelligencecollection ships
210
Miscellany
244
Notes and references
245
deterrence and defence
249
Historical background
250
Extant nuclear forces
255
US Pershing II and West German Pershing la facilities in
259
US foreignbased atomic demolition mines 1985
267
the geopolitics of nuclear basing
276
onboard nuclear weapons and nuclear propulsion systems
281
Foreign liberty ports used by the US submarine force in 1986
282
advantage and vulnerability in peacetime and wartime
285
power projection
291
Central European military balance 1980
294
NATO and the WTO 1987
295
Tank imbalance in Central Europe
297
Soviet and US military transport aircraft
303
Notes and references
316
Arms acquisition patterns based on SIPRI data 197685
328
Arms acquisition patterns based on ACDA data 1987
335
Summary of the arms transferFMP nexus for the USSR
342
US Security Assistance Programs for FY 1988
349
Sovietbloc security assistance to Cuba and Nicaragua 1982
361
Main and secondary surfaceship operating bases of the Soviet
369
Select bibliography
373
US and Soviet foreignbased systems to be removed under
377
Index
379
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (1989)

Robert E. Harkavy is at Pennsylvania State University.

Bibliographic information