<span class="vcard">David Vine</span>

David Vine

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David Vine (@DavidSVine) is professor of political anthropology at American University and the author of “Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia” (Princeton University Press, 2011) and “Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World” (Metropolitan Books, 2015). David co-directs the Chagos Archive (www.chagosarchive.org) and Let Us Return USA! (www.letusreturnusa.org). His newest book, “The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State,” was a finalist for the 2021 LA Times Book Prize in History.

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Chagossian Islanders and their supporters arrive at the Court of Appeal in central London, Feb. 5, 2007, some holding protest signs, as they prepared to fight a court ruling that would prevent the islanders going back to their homes in the remote Chagos archipelago, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The islanders had already won two legal cases in the UK courts - in 2000 and 2006 - that ruled their expulsion was illegal. Their removal began in the 1960s, after the US and UK reached a secret deal to turn the island of Diego Garcia into a US military base, without local inhabitants. (Photo byCARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

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