Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay appears in How to get what Greenland has, with permission as Daniel Immerwahr’s clearest example of Military Base Sovereignty. The episode says the base is in Cuba, that Cuba has asked the United States to leave, and that the U.S. has not left.

The example matters because it shows how strategic control can persist without formal annexation. In the source’s Greenland argument, Guantanamo Bay helps explain why military access, jurisdiction, flags, and host-country consent or non-consent can become politically sensitive even when a state does not claim to own the surrounding country.

Connections

• United States and Cuba - base operator and host-country setting in the source.
• Daniel Immerwahr and How to Hide an Empire - historical frame.
• Military Base Sovereignty and Strategic Access Without Annexation - concepts illustrated by the example.