From the UK to the Gulf, are US overseas bases becoming liabilities?

“The range of actors who might target bases has changed,” Urban Coningham, a research fellow and course lead at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in the UK, told Al Jazeera. “Bases are more vulnerable, and that changes the risk calculation. [...] Anyone can manufacture a drone in a basement … People looking to create mischief or mayhem can recruit organised criminals, making attacks harder to attribute.” All of that, he said, makes bases “more vulnerable, and that changes the risk calculation”.