The Guam buildup planned a nearly 50 percent population increase in four years.

Evidence

Planners anticipated nearly eighty thousand people, including almost twenty thousand construction workers, moving to Guam in a four-year period. Since Guam’s entire population is only around 160,000, that would mean an almost 50 percent population increase. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 244

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Category: Factual Claims

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• The Guam buildup would add nearly fifty percent to the island’s population (similarity 0.93)
• Grassroots and congressional opposition forced a major scaling back of the Guam build-up. (similarity 0.84)
• The 2006 Guam buildup moved Okinawa forces while expanding all military branches’ footprint. (similarity 0.83)
• The Pentagon’s Guam buildup budget massively understates true relocation costs by more than half. (similarity 0.81)
• Scholars documented resistance to the US military buildup on Guam (similarity 0.81)
• Guam is regarded as among the world’s most important military bases. (similarity 0.81)
• The buildup planned military infrastructure while leaving civilian water and utilities underfunded. (similarity 0.80)
• Young Chamorros formed opposition to expose the buildup’s infrastructure strains (similarity 0.80)
• Pentagon cost estimates for the Guam buildup are grossly unreliable (similarity 0.80)
• A century-old colonial attitude drives the military’s poor planning on Guam (similarity 0.79)
• Guam’s poverty rate and income gap worsened by 2013 (similarity 0.79)
• Economic desperation on Guam drives unusually high military enlistment rates (similarity 0.78)
• Guam hosts the military’s most advanced weapon systems. (similarity 0.78)