France, Aug. 3 -- Vine, an American anthropologist and the author of Base Nation and The United States of War, has spent decades documenting what he calls the US "empire" of military bases.
A fierce critic of US President Donald Trump and of US foreign policy in general, Vine nonetheless finds himself in agreement with the president: it is high time, he argues, for Europe to stand on its own two feet.
RFI: The US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced last June that Washington would review the US military presence in Europe. This process has now started, as confirmed by Elbridge Colby earlier this week. First of all, what is the main function of this military presence in Europe?
David Vine: The US presence in Europe has been character...