The U.S. holds more foreign bases than any empire in history

Evidence

Although the United States has long had some bases in foreign lands, this massive global deployment of military force was unknown in U.S. history before World War II. Now, seventy years after that war, there are still, according to the Pentagon, 174 U.S. bases in Germany, 113 in Japan, and 83 in South Korea. There are hundreds more dotting the planet in Aruba and Australia, Bahrain and Bulgaria, Colombia, Kenya, and Qatar, to name just a few. Worldwide, we have bases in more than seventy countries. Although few U.S. citizens realize it, we probably have more bases in other people’s lands than any other people, nation, or empire in world history. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 12

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s core thesis on how bases harm America and the world.
• SHARE: Great stat for someone tracking U.S. global military footprint — 174 bases in Germany alone.