Military construction at unspecified locations likely falls mostly overseas.

Evidence

Without knowing what proportion of this spending occurred at locations overseas, I again conservatively assume 15 percent (in fact, most of the spending may be abroad). This adds another $690 million in costs. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 623

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Base closures abroad tend to be offset by new base construction elsewhere (similarity 0.85)
• US military can project power farther than any rival without overseas bases (similarity 0.83)
• Overseas basing costs more than domestic basing despite host-nation support (similarity 0.83)
• Official Pentagon spending figures on overseas bases are underestimates. (similarity 0.83)
• Domestic civilian spending creates more jobs than military spending (similarity 0.82)
• Judgments about overseas base security value rest on prior beliefs, not evidence (similarity 0.82)
• Overseas bases make war more likely by lowering its cost (similarity 0.82)
• Huge base construction implies the military plans to keep fighting abroad. (similarity 0.82)
• US overseas bases make war more likely by easing military action (similarity 0.82)
• U.S. military construction spending in 2014 exceeded the budgets of several major federal agencies. (similarity 0.81)
• The overseas base network is what enables sustained distant warfare (similarity 0.81)
• Secret overseas base spending likely exceeds the official estimate. (similarity 0.81)
• Americans treat overseas military bases as an unquestioned normal good (similarity 0.81)
• Global military construction spending in 2014 exceeded several entire civilian agencies’ budgets (similarity 0.81)
• The US military is probably the world’s largest international moving company (similarity 0.80)