{"id":13876,"date":"2025-12-11T01:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:00:33","slug":"david-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/david-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"David Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#008751\">Podcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropologist <strong>David Vine<\/strong> is the author of a trilogy of books about war and peace, including The <em>United States of War: A Global History of America\u2019s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State,<\/em> a finalist for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Book Prize in History. The other books are <em>Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia <\/em>and <em>Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World<\/em>. Vine was a professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC, for 18 years (2006-2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sponsors:<\/strong> \u02bb\u0100ina Aloha Economic Futures, The Sierra Club Foundation, the Costs of War Project at Brown University, and the Institute for Policy Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"David Vine: Empire of Bases\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mocxfc8RKVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: David Vine: Empire of Bases\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4coxv2eYquyYOK5sa8E2zp?si=3M1bq-67TQihkvRS6MQ4Fg&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropologist, Author, Scholar","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-2025-2026","tag-environment","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14255,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/14255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}