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At Least Seven Hundred Foreign Bases

It's not easy to assess the size or exact value of our empire of bases. Official records on these subjects are misleading, although instructive. According to the Defense Department's annual "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2003, which itemizes foreign and domestic U.S. military real estate, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 702 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories. Pentagon bureaucrats calculate that it would require at least $113.2 billion to replace just the foreign bases -- surely far too low a figure but still larger than the gross domestic product of most countries -- and an estimated $591,519.8 million to replace all of them. The military high command deploys to our overseas bases some 253,288 uniformed personnel, plus an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employs an additional 44,446 locally hired foreigners. The Pentagon claims that these bases contain 44,870 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and that it leases 4,844 more.

These numbers, although staggeringly large, do not begin to cover all the actual bases we occupy globally. The 2003 Base Status Report fails to mention, for instance, any garrisons in Kosovo -- even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel, built in 1999 and maintained ever since by Kellogg, Brown & Root. The Report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, although the U.S. military has established colossal base structures throughout the so-called arc of instability in the two-and-a-half years since 9/11.

For Okinawa, the southernmost island of Japan, which has been an American military colony for the past 58 years, the report deceptively lists only one Marine base, Camp Butler, when in fact Okinawa "hosts" ten Marine Corps bases, including Marine Corps Air Station Futenma occupying 1,186 acres in the center of that modest-sized island's second largest city. (Manhattan's Central Park, by contrast, is only 843 acres.) The Pentagon similarly fails to note all of the $5- billion-worth of military and espionage installations in Britain, which have long been conveniently disguised as Royal Air Force bases. If there were an honest count, the actual size of our military empire would probably top 1,000 different bases in other people's countries, but no one -- possibly not even the Pentagon -- knows the exact number for sure, although it has been distinctly on the rise in recent years.

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America's Empire of Bases
By Chalmers Johnson
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Sun. March 21, 2010

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Walter Sharp, commander of the US forces Korea (USFK), indicated that it could take five or six years before US troops move to a consolidated military base ...
Tampa, Florida- MacDill Air Force Base officials tell us since thunderstorms are approaching base and AirFest activities are currently suspended until ...
The dismissal of a female homosexual Air Force sergeant at Ellsworth Air Force Base has made headlines recently. ...
Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. ...
Air Force Airman Carol Santos-Morales, daughter of Maria Martinez of Southbridge, has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, ...
They fear the construction of a new US Marine Corps base will overwhelm the island's already inadequate water and sewage systems, as well as its port, ...
"We appreciate our partnership with the US forces at Imam Ali base and anyone is welcome to open an account here today." During the construction of the bank ...
So far this year, improvised explosive devices have killed at least 40 US military members and have injured scores of others. "We're going to be busy," said ...
Russ Feingold plans to present the Congressional Gold Medal Sunday to a Wisconsin woman who flew planes for the US Army Air Forces during World War II. ...
Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, the Herald said, it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in ...
The newspaper reported that the US military was moving 387 bunker-buster bombs, from California to the US base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, ...
The US military is rapidly withdrawing its forces after seven years of war in Iraq, leaving the country in a fragile equilibrium as its political, ...
the White House is considering housing international terrorism suspects at Bagram Air Base, as is done at Guantanamo Bay. The US military recently opened ...
Items on local soldiers and airmen come from the army and Air Force Hometown News Service in San Antonio. Items on members of the navy, Marine Corps and ...
Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in 1971. ...
Other than places where military bases are located and among military families, the two wars seem far from the emotional heart of Americans these days. ...
The US military is rapidly withdrawing its forces after seven years of war in Iraq, leaving the country in a ...
News coverage of discussions between Washington and Tokyo over the relocation of US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, has curiously ...
FILE In this Sunday, July 16, 2006 file photo an Israeli F-16 warplane takes off to a mission in Lebanon from an air force base in northern Israel. ...
This is Obama's opportunity to end one of the most dangerous legacies of the Cold War: the nuclear missiles the US and Russia keep ready to fly in minutes. ...
With that gesture -- a promise to renounce violence and shun the insurgency -- the four Afghans, all of whom had spent months in US military detention, ...
Naval Station Norfolk occupies a huge piece of waterfront in the Hampton Roads area, a section of southeast Virginia dotted with military bases and a large ...
Issue: As a navy spouse living on base for the past year, I have found that my Air Force neighbors seem to receive information that I never seem to get. ...
Garrett and Yarham will carry banners on their water packs that bear the names of the late Harry Puck, a US Army veteran who survived the Bataan ...
Last month, it was revealed that the US military is developing a contingency plan to keep "combat" troops in Iraq past the September 1 deadline if necessary ...
But Kirkland said they are sturdy, noting they have ferried US troops into Afghanistan. United aircraft makes the refueling tanker for Russia's air forces, ...
By AP AP -- As of Friday, March 19, 2010, at least 939 members of the US military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the US ...
Meanwhile, a Gaza-based armed faction says it launched mortar shells at an Israeli army base in eastern Gaza Strip. In the past 24 hours, Palestinian armed ...
Among other agencies, the US Fish And Wildlife Service and the Coast Guard have provided helicopters and air boats for rescue operations, and are currently ...
David W. Eidsaune, director of Air, Space and Information Operations at Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, ...
Using services are army, navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The original proposal was Web solicited with two responses. Contract funds will not expire at the ...
A Hanover resident and former marine has gotten the US. government to admit that his rare cancer was the result of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, ...
The site is significant because it is on the grounds of a former US military airfield and near the site of a fatal hit-and-run incident in November that ...
Charles Jacoby also told reporters Thursday that the US military remains on schedule to reduce its numbers to 50000 by September. As I Corps commander, ...
AP As of Friday, March 19, 2010, at least 939 members of the US military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the US invasion of ...
With that gesture -- a promise to renounce violence and shun the insurgency -- the four Afghans, all of whom had spent months in US military detention, ...
US military and political support for the outrageous policies of Israeli colonization and apartheid is one of the clearest indicators that establishing ...
The Marine Corps is standing up its training squadron April 2 to work with Air Force and navy pilots at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. ...
Tokyo - Facing mounting pressure from Washington, Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on friday suggested a disputed US military base could ...


 


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