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This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavia Rao, locates the known overseas bases of the American military, categorized by who controls the base.In red are the ones controlled by the U.S., and blue are ones controlled by the host country.ℹ️ This map does not include several hundred temporary sites for military exercises or contingency operations.Data is sourced from a Congressional report published in 2024. Troop data is from the Defense Manpower Data Center, current to March 2024.Ranked: Countries with the Most U.S. Bases and TroopsBased on unclassified data, the U.S. has at least 128 bases across 49 countries.Of them, Japan (14),...

QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means. "You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be...