War appropriations added about $80.6 billion in 2012 toward maintaining overseas bases

Evidence

With those additions, my estimate of war zone costs for 2012—including appropriations for military construction and maintenance, troop salaries, and so on—was 97 billion. My estimate for the total costs to maintain U.S. bases and troops around the globe—both within war zones and outside them—thus reached some 170 billion for fiscal year 2012. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 647 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

By my very conservative calculations, the total cost of maintaining bases and military personnel overseas reaches at least 71.8 billion every year and could easily be in the range of 100–120 billion. That’s larger than the discretionary budget for every government agency except the Defense Department itself. And this number doesn’t even include spending on bases in overseas war zones. If we include the cost of bases and troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, in 2012 the total easily topped 170 billion. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 29 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Independent estimates of overseas base costs exceed official figures tenfold; Official overseas base costs for 2012 totaled 22.7 billion dollars — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 604; True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold (+4 more)

Related

• U.S. bases and troops abroad cost about $170 billion in 2012 (similarity 0.96)
• Official overseas base costs for 2012 totaled 22.7 billion dollars (similarity 0.94)
• Independent estimates of overseas base costs exceed official figures tenfold (similarity 0.92)
• Total overseas base costs reached $170 billion for fiscal year 2012. (similarity 0.92)
• True overseas base costs exceed the official Pentagon total by over threefold (similarity 0.92)
• US overseas bases cost taxpayers at least $71.8 billion annually (similarity 0.91)
• Overseas bases and troops cost around $136 billion in 2014 (similarity 0.90)
• War-zone base maintenance added roughly eighty billion dollars yearly in 2012 (similarity 0.90)
• Overseas bases cost more to run than domestic ones despite host-nation support (similarity 0.89)
• Official overseas base cost figures exclude all war-zone maintenance spending (similarity 0.87)
• Official Pentagon figures understate overseas base costs by over fivefold (similarity 0.87)
• Overseas base maintenance costs taxpayers over $100 billion annually (similarity 0.85)
• Overseas base spending exceeds every federal agency’s budget except Defense. (similarity 0.85)
• Host nations paid the U.S. about $1.1 billion in 2012 to sustain bases (similarity 0.83)
• Stationing troops overseas costs tens of thousands more per person annually (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• U.S. bases and troops abroad cost about $170 billion in 2012 #corroborates (0.65) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 647
• US overseas bases cost taxpayers at least $71.8 billion annually #corroborates (0.60) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 29