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U.S. Army M2A2 and M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicles are unloaded at a pier in Busan, South Korea, June 29, 2011. (AP/Yonhap, Kim Sun-ho)
The Costs of War

America Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on the War on Terror … and Counting

US Spending Over $150 Billion Annually On Overseas Military Bases

Estimates suggest that maintaining America’s ‘empire of bases’ overseas costs at least $156 billion annually.

March 7th, 2016
MintPress News Desk
March 7th, 2016
By MintPress News Desk
US military operations have continued their global expansion since the Bush years. More than 2,000 US military personnel are stationed at base Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti [AP] 

WASHINGTON --- The United States maintains about 800 military bases in at least 160 countries, according to a military scholar. In a Sept. 13 report for Tomdispatch, based on his book “Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World,” David Vine explained that, while many bases were built during the Cold War era, American

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