All non-U.S. countries combined have about thirty foreign bases

Evidence

The United States is not the only country to control military bases outside its own territory. Britain and France have about thirteen between them, mostly in their former colonies. Russia has around nine in former Soviet republics. For the first time since World War II, Japan’s so-called Self-Defense Forces have a foreign base, located in Djibouti alongside American and French bases. South Korea, the Netherlands, India, Australia, Chile, Turkey, and Israel reportedly have one foreign base apiece. In total, all the non-U.S. countries in the world combined have about thirty foreign bases among them—as compared to the United States and its eight hundred or so. If we add up all the troops and the family members living with them, plus the civilian base employees and their family members, the bases are responsible for over half a million Americans abroad. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s thesis — the U.S. possesses an order-of-magnitude more bases than the entire rest of the world.