Bases, Military: Development of
Bases, Military: Development of.Providing a secure site from which to operate, military bases can be temporary wartime installations or long‐term facilities. Strategic planning drives their necessity, but other considerations often determine their location, particularly in peacetime.
With the creation of a permanent U.S. Army after the Revolutionary War, the primary bases for the standing army and its supplies were established at West Point, New York, and at Fort Pitt (later Fort Fayette), at what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an indication of the regular army's missions of coastal and frontier defense. Bases served as military headquarters, barracks, training fields, and storage depots. Later bases would be created in a number of the seacoast fortifications such as Fort Jay (1794) on Governors Island in New York Harbor and Fortress Monroe (1823) at Point...
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