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Description of  Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Gu han, 1944 1962 (The United States in the World)

In Tip of the Spear, Alfred Peredo Flores argues that the US occupation of the island of Guhan (Guam), one of the most heavily militarized islands in the western Pacific Ocean, was enabled by a process of settler militarism. During World War II and the Cold War, Guhan was a launching site for both covert and open US military operations in the region, a strategically significant role that turned Guhan into a crucible of US overseas empire. In 1962, the US Navy lost the authority to regulate all travel to and from the island, and a tourist economy eventually emerged that changed the relationship between the Indigenous CHamoru population and the US military, further complicating the process of settler colonialism on the island. Read more