ISIS and A New Strategy for Bases?

Richard Immerman, who sponsored a conference on US Bases and the Construction of Hegemony earlier this fall, sent us a link to this NY Times article about the Pentagon working to build a string of bases in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East to address the threat from ISIS and its affiliates. I'm not sure how new this strategy is since plans like these have been in the works since the Bush Administration. However, it appears that the threat of ISIS has given strategic planners renewed interest in coordinating base policies.