# Found # Numbers #

Military Installations

A lot of these numbers/ facts found online from various sites are often outdated, seeing as this was compiled in year 2005. It is hard to find the concrete information of U.S. Military activity but even ruminating on this is VERY stunting:

C. Johnson, the NATO Watch Committee, the International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases reveal that the US operates and/or controls between 700 and 800 military bases Worldwide.

Hugh d’Andrade and Bob Wing's 2002 Map 1 entitled "U.S. Military Troops and Bases around the World, The Cost of 'Permanent War'", confirms the presence of US military personnel in 156 countries.

The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries.

In total, there are approximately 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide.

These facilities include a total of 845,441 different buildings and equipments. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 million acres. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide (Gelman, J., 2007).