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> They supply virtually every aspect of the temporary-cities that are U.S. wartime bases. Without them, we can't have these wars.

I don't believe this at all. We don't need these 'green zones' to run a war, as the US has done many times before. We did need them to run a specific kind of war, which was a blitzkrieg occupation. Not saying it was a bad plan, it certainly achieved some measure of success, but pretending that it's the only way to engage in war is unwise.