[emax]

We probably have troops in about 80 % of the world’s nations. And for the life of me I cannot fathom why.

[af_vet_rr]

We probably have troops in about 80 % of the world’s nations. And for the life of me I cannot fathom why.

"War on Terror" (i.e. the never-ending war), embassy guard duty, training, maintaining airfields, supply depots, and naval ports for our troops overseas, there are many reasons why we have troops scattered around the world.

Are they all necessary? A lot are necessary - I would rather not see our Marines pulled out of embassy guard duty, and a lot of the airfields and ports are needed to support our missions overseas, and we do a lot of intelligence gathering on the ground that a satellite simply can't do.

Now when it comes to military aid to other nations, that's a whole different topic.