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'A Fighter Pilot's Heaven': Finding Cold War Utility in the North African Desert

机译：“战斗机飞行员的天堂”：在北非沙漠找到冷战实用程序

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During the Cold War, the United States constructed an unprecedented network of military bases around the world. This expansion forced US policymakers to rethink not only their strategic interests around the world, but also the environments they would encompass. Perhaps nowhere was this more obvious than in Libya, where in the late 1940s the US Air Force began building a massive installation on the shores of Tripoli. This is not, however, the now familiar story of how military bases impact ecosystems. Instead I am interested in the ways that US officials in Libya used ideas about this novel environment-the desert-to justify the appropriation of sovereign territory for military facilities. By comparing US and European views on the Libya environment, I argue that the Americans developed a utilitarian view of the desert that enabled ever-more militarization. By the 1960s, large swaths of the Sahara had been converted into testing and practice ranges. Similar to military facilities in the American West, the Air Force hid its Cold War installations away in the desert. So effective was this strategy, in fact, that the existence of these facilities remains difficult to uncover today.
机译：在冷战期间，美国在世界范围内建立了前所未有的军事基地网络。这种扩张迫使美国决策者不仅要重新考虑其在全球的战略利益，而且要重新考虑其所处的环境。也许没有哪个地方比利比亚更为明显，在利比亚，1940年代后期，美国空军开始在的黎波里的海岸上建造大型装置。但是，这不是现在熟悉的军事基地如何影响生态系统的故事。相反，我对利比亚的美国官员如何利用有关这种新颖环境-沙漠的想法-来证明为军事设施划拨主权领土的理由感兴趣。通过比较美国和欧洲对利比亚环境的看法，我认为美国人发展了对沙漠的功利主义看法，从而使军事化程度越来越高。到1960年代，撒哈拉大片地区已转变为测试和练习范围。类似于美国西部的军事设施，空军在沙漠中躲藏了冷战设施。实际上，这种策略是如此有效，以至于今天仍然很难发现这些设施的存在。

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    《Environmental history》 |2017年第1期|50-76|共27页
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    Heefner Gretchen;

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    Northeastern Univ, Hist, Boston, MA 02115 USA;

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