Contract locations misrepresent where war support actually happens
Evidence
Switzerland would have been number five on the list, given 116,527 contracts listing the place of performance as Switzerland. However, the vast majority of these contracts are for delivering food to troops in Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, at bases in countries worldwide other than Switzerland. The explanation is that one of the major companies providing food, an arm of Supreme Group, is based in Switzerland. Canada and Saudi Arabia would also have made the top ten. Those contracts are also for the most part unrelated to the limited U.S. military presence in the two countries. Thus I exclude those three countries from this list.
— David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1550
Categorization
XREF: Relates to the broader theme of military basing economics — the logistics and supply chains behind basing dominate contracting. — connects to: Contract data by place of performance can misattribute war support work to neutral countries; Federally tracked military contract data is frequently inaccurate and incomplete; The Pentagon deliberately obscures who receives billions in overseas contracts — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 690 (+1 more)
yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Contract data by place of performance can misattribute war support work to neutral countries; Federally tracked military contract data is frequently inaccurate and incomplete; The Pentagon deliberately obscures who receives billions in overseas contracts — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 690 (+1 more)