[riskable]

I don't think it's that simple: The US Air Force doesn't give a damn if some farmer buys up nearby land and uses it for farming. They do care if it's a foreign entity trying to use bulk land purchases to spy on or otherwise harm the United States or its people.

The real problem here is the lack of transparency in ownership of corporations in the United States. If corporations weren't allowed to buy--then keep--other corporations (instead of just absorbing all their assets) this wouldn't be a problem.

Rant: I don't think corporations should be allowed to sell brands that don't include the name of the corporation clearly marked on the packaging. Walmart's Equate products all say they're manufactured by and for Walmart right on the bottle/box/whatever. Every product should be like that. Any and all corporations that own a brand should be on the label. From the bottom all the way to the top. The whole child-parent tree should be present.

[Tempest1981]

So do what the Zuckerbergs did, and buy the 4 neighboring homes, and lease them back to the previous owners.

https://sfist.com/2013/10/11/mark_zuckerberg_buys_house_next...

[asdff]

US Air force should have protocols to assume that any would be farmer buying land near a base is in fact a spy and operate accordingly. This sort of spycraft happens all the time, with intelligence agencies buying property next to each other in effort to eavesdrop.