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https://www.thenation.com/article/mi...-pad-strategy/
Smaller military bases, less contact with the natives. NATO countries employed them for years in Afghanistan - turn south at Gilbralter, east at the cape and north east, You know adjacent the North Atlantic.
You must have been asleep when they were being used to manage the mountain tops and slaughter children tending the flocks of lambs. Most are now unused as the strategy was a resounding failure and most NATO countries are no longer in country.