Pentagon overseas cost reports omit countries with major bases and understate others.

Evidence

Although the Overseas Cost Summary initially seemed quite thorough, I quickly realized that countries widely known to host U.S. bases go completely unnamed in the report. In fact, around a dozen countries and foreign territories from the Pentagon’s own list of overseas bases appear to be missing from the summary. While they may be lumped into the “Other” category, for “countries with costs less than 5 million or unspecified overseas locations,” the absence of places such as Kosovo, Bosnia, and Colombia is surprising. The military has had large bases and hundreds of troops in the Balkans since the late 1990s; in a different Pentagon report, 2012 costs in Kosovo and Bosnia were listed as 313.8 million. According to the same report, I discovered that the OCS understates costs for bases in Honduras and Guantánamo Bay by about a third, or $86 million. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 608