Official Pentagon spending figures on overseas bases are underestimates.
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- Secret overseas base spending likely exceeds the official estimate. (similarity 0.89)
- Official base cost tallies exclude billions in classified overseas programs (similarity 0.88)
- The Pentagon legally must report total overseas base spending each year (similarity 0.88)
- Official Pentagon figures understate overseas base costs by over fivefold (similarity 0.87)
- Overseas base spending exceeds every federal agency’s budget except Defense. (similarity 0.86)
- Independent estimates put overseas base costs tenfold above the Pentagon’s figure (similarity 0.86)
- True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold (similarity 0.85)
- Official overseas base costs undercount true spending by more than threefold. (similarity 0.85)
- Overseas bases and troops cost around $136 billion in 2014 (similarity 0.85)
- Official overseas base cost figures exclude all war-zone maintenance spending (similarity 0.84)
- Overseas base contracts range from $43 to $301 million apiece. (similarity 0.84)
- Official overseas military cost reports omit hundreds of millions in allied spending (similarity 0.84)
- The Pentagon spent roughly $385 billion on overseas contractor work from 2001 to 2013 (similarity 0.84)
- The Pentagon counts ‘small’ overseas bases valued up to $915 million (similarity 0.83)
- US overseas bases cost taxpayers at least $71.8 billion annually (similarity 0.83)