Intelligence Gathering and Foreign Land Ownership in the United States, 1945-2021

• In Event: Advances in Military and Intelligence Studies

Brief Overview

What explains the distribution of foreign land ownership in the United States? We argue that adversaries own land closer to domestic military bases to relieve information asymmetries. We find support for our theory using public data from 1945-2021.

Authors

• Mark E. Schaefer, Marietta College

• John Logan Gantner, University of Kentucky