Genuine Security is an independent news and explainer website about US military bases and the communities that live beside them in the Asia Pacific, Okinawa and Puerto Rico. It reports on base policy and agreements, on women’s safety near military installations, and on the peace and anti-militarism movements that have organised around them.
What we cover
- Asia Pacific: where US bases are and why, status of forces and visiting forces agreements, the Women, Peace and Security agenda, contamination and cleanup, and the history of women’s activism across the region.
- Okinawa: the concentration of bases on one island, the Futenma and Henoko dispute, aircraft noise and accidents, water contamination, and the island’s history since 1945.
- Puerto Rico: a century of US military presence, the Navy’s use of Vieques and Culebra, the campaigns that ended it, cleanup and health studies, and the redevelopment of former bases.
Independence
Genuine Security is an independent website. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or speaking for the Women for Genuine Security network or any other organisation, campaign, government, military or political party, and it does not represent any group named in its articles. Organisations and their positions are described from their own public statements and from published sources, with attribution.
The site does not take donations, memberships, registrations or sign-ups, and it sells nothing.
How we report
Articles describe documented events, agreements and research, and link to the sources they rely on: government records, court and treaty texts, official statistics, academic studies and established news reporting. Where people disagree, articles set out each side’s stated position rather than taking one.
Corrections
If you spot an error, please let us know through the contact page.