U.S. troop presence agreements on foreign soil more than doubled between 1991 and 2007.
Evidence
In even more countries, “access agreements” have given U.S. forces regular use rights at airfields, ports, and bases. As part of the global realignment, the Air Force signed more than twenty “gas-and-go” agreements with countries in Africa alone during Donald Rumsfeld’s time as secretary of defense. These agreements allow planes to refuel and repair at locations across the continent. Between the end of the Cold War and the end of Rumsfeld’s tenure in 2007, the number of agreements permitting the presence of U.S. troops on foreign soil more than doubled, from forty-five to more than ninety. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 155
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- US troop-presence agreements abroad more than doubled between the Cold War’s end and 2007 (similarity 0.98)
- US military presence in Africa grew from hundreds to up to eleven thousand troops (similarity 0.81)
- U.S. military presence in Africa now exceeds that in Latin America and the Caribbean (similarity 0.79)