War-zone base maintenance added roughly eighty billion dollars yearly in 2012

Evidence

Still, in determining how much war spending has supported bases and military personnel overseas, I stuck with the OCS methodology. I excluded funding for procurement, research, and similar activities, and focused on the costs of military personnel, operations and maintenance, military construction, and health care. Those costs represent approximately 75 percent of the total war budget. Using data for fiscal year 2012 to match the other calculations in this chapter, I applied that percentage to Congress’s 107.5 billion in war appropriations for Afghanistan and the final months of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. This yields an estimated 80.6 billion in additional war spending. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 644