This one-of-a-kind reference book investigates the current state of U.S. military bases and examines the wide-ranging implications of the base-closure and realignment debates and policies.
David S. Sorenson has taught national security and military affairs for over 25 years at Denison University, the Mershon Center at Ohio State University, and at the U.S. Air War College. He is the author of Shutting Down the Cold War: The Politics of Military Base Closure (1998).
US military base closure is governed by a highly regularized
process called base realignment and closure (BRAC). In this volume,
Sorenson details that process and analyzes the impact of politics
on how it is implemented and its effects. He examines the varying
reasons for base closures, pre-BRAC processes of closure, and the
2005 BRAC process. He judges the 2005 BRAC to have fallen far short
of its goals, partly through the political activities of domestic
base defenders, although individual base conversions were largely
successful.
*Reference & Research Book News*
Between 1988 and 1995 the Base Realignment and Closure Commission
closed nearly a hundred bases ands realigned over three hundred
others, affecting not only soldiers but the communities which
housed these bases. Military Base Closure is for both military
collections and any community affected by a closure -- it's the
only complete reference to these closings and considers the
politics and rationale behind base closures, profiling those
affected by the process and those which remain.
*Midwest Book Review - California Bookwatch*
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