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US Military Bases on Guam in Global Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Catherine Lutz
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The island of Guam is a most remarkable place of cultural distinctiveness and resourcefulness and of great physical beauty. The Chamorro people who have lived here for 4000 years also have an historical experience with colonialism and military occupation more long-lived and geographically intensive, acre for acre, than anywhere else in the Pacific and perhaps even in global comparative scale (Aguon 2006). It is today embroiled in a debate over when, how, or if the United States military will acquire more land for its purposes and make more intensive use of the island as a whole.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 30 , July 2010 , e3
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