There are 800 military bases in more than 70 places around the world!Foreign media reveals the U.S. military deployment

With 374 military bases and 300,000 troops stationed overseas, can the United States control the world?

China News Service, April 16th. According to a report by Peninsula Chinese on the 15th, since the end of the Second World War, the US military has been deployed in many places in Europe and East Asia. After the US announced the “Global War on Terrorism”, the military scale began to expand. . Tens of thousands of American soldiers are deployed in dozens of countries around the world. The motives of this military presence vary from country to country and time to time. Now that the US troops in Afghanistan will withdraw, what is the scale of the US military deployment in the world? Since September 11, 2001, the plane hijacked by the gunman collided with the World Trade Center building in New York, and another crashed in Pennsylvania. The attack killed about 3,000 Americans. Since then, the United States has entered a new stage of global military deployment. On April 14, 2021, US President Biden announced that the US military in Afghanistan will withdraw before September 11, 2021. This move reveals the presence of the U.S. military throughout the world. For this reason, Peninsula Chinese Network tried to draw a “map of the U.S. military presence” around the world and clarified the goal of this widespread deployment. On September 11, 2020 local time, the US Department of Defense held a ceremony to commemorate the nineteenth anniversary of the “September 11” incident. The picture shows the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Millie, giving a speech at the Pentagon’s “September 11” Memorial Park on the same day.Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong • How many military bases does the United States have abroad? What is its type? The report pointed out that from Honduras to Australia, Japan, Iraq and Qatar, to Germany and Italy, the United States has hundreds of military bases around the world, which cover all continents. According to the work of American University anthropologist David Wien on American bases, the United States has about 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and regions. The nature of U.S. bases varies from country to country. Some are used to train local troops, such as bases in Iraq; some are operational bases that involve launching military attacks, such as bases in Afghanistan; some bases only deploy drones, such as bases in Chad and Niger. American forces have also been deployed to countries linked to NATO, such as military bases in Germany and Italy. On January 8, 2017 local time, Bremerhaven, Germany, the US Army in Europe transported a large number of large military installations from Colorado to Central and Eastern Europe.

·How much of the U.S. military is abroad? Which country has the most American troops?

Peninsula Chinese Network believes that the United States may have 150,000 to 200,000 soldiers abroad, and this number varies according to the degree of US participation in foreign military conflicts. However, due to the secret nature of the deployment of US troops in certain areas, and the nature of their missions are not known in most cases, the exact number of the total number of these troops is not known.

Currently, there are as many as 50,000 US troops stationed in Japan. In South Korea, there are also approximately 26,000 American soldiers. In Europe, there are approximately 33,000 American soldiers, most of whom are in Germany.

Data map: The US military dropped the “Mother of Bombs” in Afghanistan, second only to the atomic bomb in power.

·What is the cost of the US war in Afghanistan?

A study published by the joint research project “War Costs” of Brown University and Boston University in the United States shows that from the September 11 incident in 2001 to the end of fiscal year 2020, the cost of American wars has reached 6.4 trillion U.S. dollars. In addition to military operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria and African countries, this cost also includes war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The “cost of war” project also believes that since 2001, in addition to the deaths of more than 6,300 Americans and the wounding of tens of thousands, the cost of war in Afghanistan has exceeded $1 trillion.

According to other media reports, since October 2001, more than 30,000 civilians in Afghanistan have been killed, bombed, or killed by the U.S. military. More than 60,000 were injured, and about 11 million people have been reduced to death. refugee.

·US Army Has it reached its goal? Why leave Afghanistan now?

As far as the “U.S. war on terrorism” is concerned, the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, and the leader of the extremist organization “ISIS” headed by Baghdadi. However, many observers do not believe that the United States achieved its expected goals due to its invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to the report analysis, no US president intends to stay in Afghanistan forever. Former President Trump promised to withdraw US troops from the “endless war in Afghanistan” and reached an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw US troops by May 2021.

This put pressure on the Biden administration. The Biden administration had no choice but to initiate the withdrawal process and promised to complete the withdrawal before September 11 of the same year, although its pace had slowed down.