There is more continuity in the history of U.S. military basing policy than is typically assumed.
Andrew A. Szarejko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wartburg College. He is the author of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025) and the editor of Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching International Relations amid COVID-19 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). His work has also been published in journals such as PS: Political Science and Politics, Millennium, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and The Journal of Global Security Studies.