Host nations pay the US for vacated base infrastructure

Evidence

Closing Cold War bases built for a much larger military would lead to both immediate and long-term savings. The possibility of canceling billions in base construction, operations, and maintenance contracts is a good reminder that there are immediate savings available by reducing troop deployments and bases abroad. As we have seen, bringing troops and base spending back to the United States will mean stemming the leakage of money out of the U.S. economy and ensuring that economic spillover effects remain at home. In many cases, too, host nations will actually pay us for infrastructure we vacate. When we leave, we should assist in the work of cleaning up the environmental damage we caused; beyond that, we should properly consider residual value payments a peace dividend, rather than money to be funneled back into the base nation or the larger military budget. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1070

Categorization

• QUESTION: Host nations paying residual value payments for vacated infrastructure is a striking, under-quantified claim — worth chasing actual examples and figures.