The Overseas Cost Summary omits entire categories of overseas spending

Evidence

In places like Australia and Qatar, the Pentagon reported having funds to pay troops’ salaries but no money for “operations and maintenance.” This would mean not having funds to turn the lights on, feed people, or do regular repairs. In other places, like Diego Garcia, there were no funds reported to pay personnel. Clearly, the report had either omitted the relevant figures or hadn’t gathered the data to include them. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 610

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• The Pentagon’s cost report omits a dozen known base-hosting countries (similarity 0.90)
• Official overseas military cost reports omit hundreds of millions in allied spending (similarity 0.87)
• Pentagon overseas cost reports omit countries with major bases and understate others. (similarity 0.86)
• The Pentagon legally must report total overseas base spending each year (similarity 0.86)
• Official Pentagon figures understate overseas base costs by over fivefold (similarity 0.85)
• Official overseas base cost figures exclude all war-zone maintenance spending (similarity 0.85)
• Independent estimates of overseas base costs exceed official figures tenfold (similarity 0.84)
• Combatant command overseas operations funding is omitted from official cost reports. (similarity 0.84)
• Official base cost tallies exclude billions in classified overseas programs (similarity 0.84)
• True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold (similarity 0.83)
• Overseas military health care and benefits add over $11.6 billion to the base bill. (similarity 0.83)
• Official Pentagon spending figures on overseas bases are underestimates. (similarity 0.83)
• Official overseas base costs for 2012 totaled 22.7 billion dollars (similarity 0.83)
• Humanitarian and counternarcotics spending function as bases-related costs omitted from official tallies (similarity 0.82)
• The cost report excludes bases in U.S. territories lacking full voting representation. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Pentagon’s overseas cost summary omits most defense-wide spending. #corroborates (0.80)
• The Pentagon omits overseas health care and benefits costs from its base accounting. #exemplifies (0.75) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 622
• Official war spending figures omit billions in unacknowledged costs #corroborates (0.70) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 645
• Humanitarian and counternarcotics spending function as bases-related costs omitted from official tallies #exemplifies (0.65) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 635