All non-US countries combined hold thirty bases versus America’s eight hundred

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

Category: Factual Claims

• SEED: The disproportionality figure is anchor material for an essay quantifying the anomalous scale of the US base network.

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• The reciprocal scenario of foreign bases in America is unthinkable (similarity 0.83)
• Even the Pentagon does not know its own base total. (similarity 0.82)
• By 1900 the U.S. had an overseas base network rivaling European colonial powers (similarity 0.81)
• Overseas bases are among the least contested policies in American politics (similarity 0.81)
• The US military is probably the world’s largest international moving company (similarity 0.80)
• The U.S. base network exceeds any prior empire’s footprint (similarity 0.80)
• War-driven base growth continued through Korea and Vietnam into the 1960s. (similarity 0.80)
• Postwar US military global reach exceeded that of any prior empire (similarity 0.79)
• US military can project power farther than any rival without overseas bases (similarity 0.79)
• Overseas basing costs more than domestic basing despite host-nation support (similarity 0.79)
• Judgments about overseas base security value rest on prior beliefs, not evidence (similarity 0.79)
• Every empire since Portugal has eventually lost its foreign bases (similarity 0.78)
• U.S. support produced unbroken one-party rule in the largest base hosts. (similarity 0.78)