About 80 percent of Iraq-Afghanistan war materiel transited Germany

Evidence

Just steps from Ramstein’s airfield are the shiny new passenger and cargo terminals of the Air Force’s largest overseas cargo port. These terminals have been major logistical hubs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: around 80 percent of the troops, weaponry, and supplies used in those wars have gone through Germany, the bulk of them through Ramstein. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 110

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s core thesis that bases matter to how wars are waged; supports the book’s central claim that these installations enable distant wars. — connects to: Vietnam-era troops in Germany committed crimes that eroded local support for the American presence.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 110