The Pentagon’s cost report omits a dozen known base-hosting countries

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. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 608

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 608
• XREF: connects to: Independent estimates of overseas base costs exceed official figures tenfold; The Pentagon’s overseas cost summary omits most defense-wide spending.; The Pentagon’s school cost claim omits Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Americas. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The Overseas Cost Summary omits entire categories of overseas spending #corroborates (0.80)
• The Pentagon omits overseas health care and benefits costs from its base accounting. #expands (0.70)
• The Pentagon’s overseas cost summary omits most defense-wide spending. #corroborates (0.65)
• The Pentagon’s school cost claim omits Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Americas. #corroborates (0.60)
• Official Pentagon spending figures on overseas bases are underestimates. #expands (0.60)