U.S. military reach now extends to nearly every country on earth.

Evidence

As the base expert Catherine Lutz put it, the United States moved from being “a nation suspicious of standing armies to one whose military patrols the globe in all of its corners, twenty-four hours each day.” Lutz wrote those words shortly before 2001; since then, thanks to the global “war on terror,” the military’s reach has grown even further, with troops and U.S. military facilities located in almost every country in the world. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1048

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