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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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Fri. November 20, 2009

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global Hawks are currently flown in four locations across the globe: Beale Air Force Base, home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the RQ-4's main operating ...
5 shootings, the assault was one of at least six targeting US military personnel or bases since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, including two this year: one at ...
The case comes as Japan and the United States are locked in a feud over the relocation of a US Marine air base on Okinawa, which is home to about half of ...
(Washington DC) The US Senate has approved $412 million for construction projects at the Little Rock Air Force Base and Pine Bluff Arsenal. ...
According to reports the bomber detonated his vehicle which contained numerous explosives at a US military base in Shahjoy located in the southern province ...
About 1500 US service members, mostly from the army and Air Force, gathered under a welcome banner and an American flag to see their commander in chief. ...
There are currently some 40 Jewish chaplains on active duty in the US military, out of an estimated 2800 in total. The US Navy alone, for example, ...
US President Barack Obama speaks during a rally with troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea November 19, 2009. Full Article at Canoe Today's most popular ...
A review of US Army and Pentagon policies has been ordered by the defence secretary in the wake of a shooting at a military base. ...
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In the past five years, the program has collected nearly 1 million calling cards for US service members stationed at military bases around the world or ...
US, Afghan and NATO troops, moreover, are scattered around far-flung, often remote bases. As a result, the big, lumbering Chinooks are the 18-wheelers of ...
(David L. Ryan/ Globe Staff) By John Guilfoil PLYMOUTH - US Army Sergeant Benjamin Sherman made his final journey home yesterday morning. ...
US President Barack Obama arrives at Osan Air Base in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Source: AP PRESIDENT ...
By the time US forces left Vietnam, the South Vietnamese army had at least proved itself capable of holding ground against its enemy, albeit with massive US ...
US President Barack Obama, right, greets with US Air Forces officers upon arrival at the Osan US Air Force Base in Osan, 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of ...
But Canadian-born terrorism suspect Omar Khadr will continue to face prosecution through a military tribunal at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ...
The agreement between Colombia and the US military has been criticized by several South American presidents, but especially by Chavez, who decided, ...
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The procession bringing the 21-year-old soldier's casket from Hanscom Air Force Base was welcomed by onlookers ...
Cooper is the US public health service officer assigned to US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine Europe. Still, the rates here are ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first detainee transferred to New York from a US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to face criminal ...
I can think of no greater idiotic irony than being shot on a US military base/post, having been forcefully unarmed by my own government. ...
The latest figures, together with the recent shooting rampage at Fort Hood military base in Texas, have raised questions about combat stress and the mental ...
The US Army reported tuesday that the number of suicides among soldiers this year has already equaled the number for all of last year, ...
That case has also thrown a light on mental illness within the US military. Today General Peter Chiarelli - the army vice chief of staff - released figures ...
5 Hasan opened fire at the military base killing 13 people and wounding over 60 before being seriously wounded himself. He was charged with 13 counts of ...
It is a further example that this administration has a contempt for the US military and still can't come to grips with the fact that the war in Iraq met its ...
She is on active duty while attending medical training to become a surgical assistant at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. army Pfc. Joshua Plante, ...
Overall, a slim majority in the new poll conducted Thursday through Sunday say Obama is giving US military leaders "about the right amount" of influence in ...
Undoubtedly it's the increased US military presence in Colombia, and Chavez has good reason to be nervous. Up to now he has had carte blanche in Latin ...
She was arrested and temporarily placed in custody while her 10-month-old child Kamani was put into a daycare scheme on her military base in Savannah, ...
Tokyo (Reuters) - Japan and the United States will hold the first meeting of a working group to tackle a row over a US military base on tuesday, ...
The top US military officer said on tuesday deployments were still manageable even though troops would be operating in a "stress window for the next couple ...
16, 2009, at least 839 members of the US military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the US invasion of Afghanistan in late ...


 


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