The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson

Author:Chalmers Johnson [Johnson, Chalmers]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Civil-Military Relations, History, United States, Civil-Military Relations - United States, United States - Military Policy, United States - Politics and Government - 2001, Military-Industrial Complex, United States - Foreign Relations - 2001, Official Secrets - United States, 21st Century, Official Secrets, Imperialism, Military-Industrial Complex - United States, Military, Militarism, International, Intervention (International Law), Law, Militarism - United States
ISBN: 9780805077971
Google: MrV7dCG5S0YC
Amazon: 0805077979
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

According to the Pentagon’s September 2001 Base Status Report, the United States has seventy-three bases in Japan. (A careful and well-documented analysis by Japanese antibase activists gives the number as ninety-one.)22 These bases house some 40,217 uniformed service personnel, plus 6,431 civilian employees of the Department of Defense and 42,653 dependents. They also employ 29,205 Japanese and Okinawans to mow the lawns, repair the plumbing, wait on tables in officers’ clubs, operate motor pools—and translate Japanese-language books and magazines as well as communications intercepts for U.S. intelligence agencies. The Japanese government pays us some $4 billion per annum to help defray the costs of these services, making Japan perhaps the only country that pays another country to carry out espionage against itself. The troops on these bases have no military functions. They have been held in reserve for deployment elsewhere in Asia—in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, the Philippines, East Timor, and other places—as the need (or opportunity) arises. The United States does not have to consult the Japanese government about their use.

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