US military has spent $30 billion on African bases and programs since 2001
Evidence
In total, since late 2001, the military has spent around $30 billion or more on a growing military infrastructure as well as other military aid and programs in Africa. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1000
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- US military presence in Africa grew from hundreds to up to eleven thousand troops (similarity 0.85)
- U.S. military presence in Africa now exceeds that in Latin America and the Caribbean (similarity 0.84)
- Base infrastructure spending outpaced troop numbers threefold in Iraq and Afghanistan (similarity 0.82)
- Base infrastructure spending grew triple the rate deployment numbers justify (similarity 0.81)
- Pentagon had preplanned African bases before the Ebola deployment (similarity 0.81)
- Official Pentagon spending figures on overseas bases are underestimates. (similarity 0.81)
- Military construction at unspecified locations likely falls mostly overseas. (similarity 0.80)
- Pentagon forces have quietly expanded to a dozen new African air bases (similarity 0.80)
- Reported costs for active bases like Colombia and Yemen are implausibly low. (similarity 0.79)
- War-zone base maintenance added roughly eighty billion dollars yearly in 2012 (similarity 0.79)
- U.S. bases and troops abroad cost about $170 billion in 2012 (similarity 0.79)
- U.S. military operations in Africa exceed publicly disclosed scope (similarity 0.79)
- Military Ebola response doubled as pre-planned African base building (similarity 0.78)
- Military spending creates fewer than half the jobs of equivalent education investment. (similarity 0.78)