U.S. Bases in Asia Pac

Survey of U.S. military bases and influence in the Asia Pacific Region since the end of the Second World War. Using the geographic scope of PACOM (Pacific Command), the course covers an area including Japan, Guam, Hawai’i, and Korea. Despite the failure of President Obama’s “Pivot to the Pacific” campaign, there remains a long history of U.S. presence in and across the Pacific Ocean; sometimes this presence is in the form of U.S. soldiers stationed on bases abroad, sometimes this presence is landscape altering in the form of nuclear testing. Students are introduced to key themes in the creation of “America’s Lake,” as well as movements of resistance against the U.S. empire.