Official overseas base costs for 2012 totaled 22.7 billion dollars
Evidence
For the 2012 fiscal year, the Overseas Cost Summary put the total at $22.7 billion. That’s a considerable sum, roughly equal to the entire budget of the Department of Justice or the Department of Agriculture. It’s also about half the entire 2012 budget of the Department of State—significant portions of which actually go to arms sales, foreign military training, and other military (rather than diplomatic) purposes overseas. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 604
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 604
- XREF: connects to: Independent estimates of overseas base costs exceed official figures tenfold; Overseas bases cost more to run than domestic ones despite host-nation support; U.S. bases and troops abroad cost about $170 billion in 2012 — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 647 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- War appropriations added about $80.6 billion in 2012 toward maintaining overseas bases
#expands(0.60) - True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold
#contradicts(0.60) - U.S. bases and troops abroad cost about $170 billion in 2012
#contradicts(0.50) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 647 - US overseas bases cost taxpayers at least $71.8 billion annually
#contradicts(0.40) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 29