Military Presence In Who Owns Diego Garcia

Impacts of bases around the world are greater than just being a military presence. Bases represent power, nationalism, control, and influence. In island of shame, Vine describes the united states as an empire, he also characterizes bases a tool used to maintain global political and economic supremacy. Similarly, Robertson in Who Owns Diego Garcia describes military presence as a tool to force compliance, intimidation, and coercion. Just as bases are powerful zoned areas that project supremacy, intimidation, and control, suburbs also project supremacy, compliance, and are zoned areas that are heavily militarized. Suburbs then become hybrids of civilian life and military life.
Both suburbs and military bases provide its inhabitants the feeling

This distinction from those inside the zone and those outside the zone begin to build the idea of superiority, more specifically those on the outside are seen as the enemy or less than. The ideas of the outside “other” being the enemy is similar to that of the enemy as experienced during times of war. For example, in a military base those outside, or those who are not part of the base community are inherently the enemy and therefore inferior and expendable. In order for those in the zoned areas to continue to have their security and privileges, and protection, oppression comes in to play. To have security and wealth, both must be taken from a different place and imported into the zoned area. Then those on the suburb or zoned areas profit from the benefits being

Military technologies such as drones, surveillance technology, as well as military tactics, such s spying, surveillance, power hierarchy, control, and fear are reabsorbed to the country of origin; in this case suburbs in the United States. During times of war the sense of danger is heightened and those in a base are more aware of outsiders and want more security. These feeling of danger from the others are also evident in suburbs. Suburbanites focus on maintaining their community safe and accept the militarized perspective of always needing security to protect any aspect of their life. For example, people buy insurance for accident that might not even happen, more specifically in suburb communities form community crime watch groups that focus on protect the suburbs form the dangerous others, as well as identifying suspicious activity (different then becomes dangerous). These notions of hyper awareness to the dangerous outsider and of vast efforts for security display how mass emotion has affected culture around the United States. for example during the cold war era people were constantly surrounded by global death and threat of death which created mass fear that began to shift mass emotion toward the mindset of preparedness (“peace” time application of war time technologies). During the cord war civilian life within the United States began to incorporated military tactics and spaces such as school having bomb