pIn iTip of the Speari, 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 military US government 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.ppThe US military occupation of Guhan was based on a co-constitutive process that included CHamoru land dispossession, discursive justifications for the remaking of the island, the racialization of civilian military labor, and the military's policing of