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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

US Military Bases Growing Worldwide


Camp Bondsteel, the biggest US army base in the Balkan
A few online outposts have started to comment on Americas enormous collection of international military bases.

The United States maintains the largest collection of foreign military bases in world history. Officially, at the beginning of 2011, there were 1,429,367 American troops stationed in 150 countries worldwide.

This number does not include contractors who outnumber troops in Iraq and Afghanistan or the operations of the CIA or other secretive units.

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