{"id":17857,"date":"2026-03-03T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=17857"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:22:33","slug":"us-mil-footprint-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/us-mil-footprint-update\/","title":{"rendered":"US overseas military footprint [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US\u2019s 742 military bases worldwide aren\u2019t about defense &#8212; they\u2019re a global launchpad for war. They ring the world as the US&#8217;s infrastructure for intervention, coercion, and control to maintain US hegemony. The latest unprovoked attacks on Iran show exactly how those bases are used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10240\" height=\"5761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update.png 10240w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-1635hrs_us-mil-footprint-update-848x478.png 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 10240px) 100vw, 10240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US\u2019s 742 military bases worldwide aren\u2019t about defense &#8212; they\u2019re a global launchpad for war. They ring the world as the US&#8217;s infrastructure for intervention, coercion, and control to maintain US hegemony. The latest unprovoked attacks on Iran show exactly how those bases are used.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[603,3273,3572,307,1340,3240],"class_list":["post-17857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacies","category-infographics","tag-imperialism","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-overseas-military-bases","tag-united-states","tag-us-imperialism","tag-us-military-footprint","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 03:07:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17862,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions\/17862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}