The Pentagon legally must report total overseas base spending each year
Evidence
While overseas bases are clearly more expensive than domestic bases, the total bill for maintaining hundreds of bases and hundreds of thousands of troops abroad remains a mystery. In theory, we should know the total: by law, the Pentagon must tell Congress what it spends on all the military’s activities at bases, embassies, and other facilities abroad in an annual report called the “Overseas Cost Summary” (OCS). — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 603
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- DEFINE: Introduces the Overseas Cost Summary as the legally mandated reporting vehicle.
Related
- Official Pentagon figures understate overseas base costs by over fivefold (similarity 0.89)
- Overseas base spending exceeds every federal agency’s budget except Defense. (similarity 0.88)
- Official Pentagon spending figures on overseas bases are underestimates. (similarity 0.88)
- Overseas base maintenance costs taxpayers over $100 billion annually (similarity 0.87)
- Official base cost tallies exclude billions in classified overseas programs (similarity 0.87)
- Secret overseas base spending likely exceeds the official estimate. (similarity 0.86)
- Official overseas military cost reports omit hundreds of millions in allied spending (similarity 0.86)
- Overseas bases and troops cost around $136 billion in 2014 (similarity 0.86)
- The Overseas Cost Summary omits entire categories of overseas spending (similarity 0.86)
- Official overseas base cost figures exclude all war-zone maintenance spending (similarity 0.85)
- True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold (similarity 0.85)
- US overseas bases cost taxpayers at least $71.8 billion annually (similarity 0.85)
- Official overseas base costs undercount true spending by more than threefold. (similarity 0.85)
- Pentagon overseas cost reports omit countries with major bases and understate others. (similarity 0.85)
- Official overseas base costs for 2012 totaled 22.7 billion dollars (similarity 0.85)