Page DoD-32 of this report shows a total of 766 bases overseas, with 16 of them "large."
Page DoD-71 starts the inventory of overseas bases, as follows:
Antigua, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, British Indian Ocean Territories, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kwajalein Atoll, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Saint Helena, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Trucial Oman Coast, Turkey, and the UK.
The report omits installations in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, among dozens and dozens of others, such as Camp Comanche in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Maybe since it's a "camp" instead of a "base," it's not included in the report.
This link is a front-end to a database of US installations worldwide. A simple keyword search sorted by country is a good way to get a list.
Afghanistan, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, British Indian Ocean Territories, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cuba, Cyprus, Greenland, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, Uzbekistan.
Both of these sources omit mention of Camp Simba in Kenya, for example.
“Page DoD-32 of this report shows a total of 766 bases overseas, with 16 of them “large.””
Let’s see, some of those are redundant since they count Army Airfields (AAF’s) as independant bases.
Then they list supply and fuel depots which are mostly operated by contractors.
I find it funny that they list the naval station at Key West Florida as an “overseas” station in the Bahamas thus making it one of the 766.
Some of the other “bases” such as the one listed in Australia for example is a communications relay station.
Others are early warning radar sites.
And as far as the Kwajalein Atoll....
“Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (RTS), formerly known as Kwajalein Missile Range. RTS includes radar installations, optics, telemetry, and communications equipment which are used for ballistic missile and missile interceptor testing and space operations support. Kwajalein hosts one of three ground antennas (others are on Diego Garcia and Ascension Island) that assist in the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigational system.”
So I guess that we should pack up and leave and say f*ck missile testing, and space operations support, and f*ck GPS too?
Camp Comanche was not included in the report because it was turned over to the Bosnians back in 2002.
http://www.nato.int/sfor/indexinf/148/p02a/t02p02a.htm
So with that being the case, how many of those 766 bases have been closed since the report came out?
Funny how we’ve had a lot of these “bases” for the past 40 or so years and it’s only now that the military hating anti-war left started populating the paul campaign that he and his supporters now whine about the military being overstretched.