Mapping American Expansionism

Mapping the Growth of Bases Worldwide is an interactive map of U.S.A. armed services bases in addition to 'lily pad' bases roughly the globe. Lily pad bases (or Cooperative Security Locations) are small, oftentimes secret, facilities that the U.S.A. maintains, supposedly for anti-terrorism purposes roughly the world.

The large blueish markers on the map demo countries roughly the the world which host U.S.A. armed services bases, for example the 174 bases inwards Germany. The smaller blood-red markers demo the private locations of U.S.A. lily pad bases.

The information for the map comes from a give away of sources. However the secretive nature of lily pad bases in addition to the lack of transparency agency that at that topographic point may survive many to a greater extent than lily pad bases that haven't made it to the map.