Germany hosted over 260,000 U.S. troops by 1955.

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• Constant training rotations mask a permanent U.S. military presence abroad (similarity 0.82)
• Post-Korea US troop levels in Germany held near 260,000 for decades (similarity 0.81)
• Base-related crime and disorder permanently eroded German bedrock support for the American presence. (similarity 0.79)
• The end of conscription in 1973 drove the military to hire cheap foreign contractors (similarity 0.79)
• Camp segregation was the core principle of the modernizing army. (similarity 0.79)
• Americans displayed pistols while paying Italian base workers (similarity 0.79)
• The Boer War conscripted thousands of indentured Indians and Black Africans into both armies. (similarity 0.78)
• Early warnings of American hegemony over Europe triggered Gramsci’s analysis (similarity 0.78)