Overseas bases and troops cost around $136 billion in 2014

Evidence

Since 2012, Pentagon spending has fallen somewhat, due to the end of U.S. operations in Iraq, the gradual withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, and Congress’s sequestration process. Accounting for those declines and adjusting my estimate for the latest complete fiscal year, 2014, yields an estimate of 64.4 billion for the costs of bases and troops abroad outside war zones. Adding the costs of bases and troops in Afghanistan and other war zones would bring the total to around 136 billion for 2014. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 647

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 647
• 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; True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• US overseas bases cost taxpayers at least $71.8 billion annually #corroborates (0.70) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 29