The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet
Posted on September 11th, 2008
The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It.
By Tom Engelhardt – AlterNet – San Francisco,CA,USA – 8 Sept 2008
‘America garrison the globe in ways that really are unprecedented, and yet, if you live in the United States, you basically wouldn’t know it. … Sometimes they live on military bases built to the tune of billions of dollars that amount to sizeable American towns (with accompanying amenities), sometimes on stripped down forward operating bases that may not even have showers. When those troops don’t stay, often American equipment does — carefully stored for further use at tiny “cooperative security locations,” known informally as “lily pads” (from which U.S. troops, like so many frogs, could assumedly leap quickly into a region in crisis).’
