Lists of military installations overseas, including lists from U.S. Dept. of Defense

Specific Bases

Info from Global Security

Projection of American Power Worldwide

Commentary

U.S. Military Overseas

Some listings and some maps

• Base Guide from Military.com "Every U.S. military installation around the world is in our database." Scroll down for a small map of overseas bases.
• Bases for Coalition Operations during Operation Enduring Freedom
• MilitaryLiving.com lists maps that it publishes
• U.S. Air Force bases around the world From About.com (very few bases actually shown)
• U.S. Military Bases World Wide 2001-2003
• U.S. Strategic View: Interactive Map from MSNBC -- "The Secret Empire: The U.S. Military in the 21st Century"
  
• Jane's

From U.S. Dept. of Defense

• Base Structure Report (BSR) for fiscal year 2005; pdf file
• Worldwide Manpower Distribution by Geographic Area from U.S. Dept. of Defense; 9/04; pdf file. Access to U.S. Dept. of Defense publications from Library of Congress.

  Web pages that aren't there anymore (U.S. military withdrew lists of military facilities available on the Web in 2002)

  • Military installations around the world used to be listed at DefenseLINK (the U.S. Military's offical main site) by country That list was withdrawn from the Web. There used to be a cached copy at Google, but it's been withdrawn as well.
  • A complete 1996 list used to be here at DefenseLINK (list was last updated 17 July 1998). Google cached copy has been withdrawn.

More Information and Information about Specific Bases

• U.S. Army Installations and Facilities Web Sites from Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management U.S. Army. Examples: Camp As Sayliyah and Camp Doha in Kuwait
• Where We Serve: Information about Defense Department Installations from U.S. Dept. of Defense; last updated 2/2001

Information from Global Security

Global Security provides military news and information on a continuous basis. Lists of U.S. military facilities around the world from Global Security.

Iraq GlobalSecurity maps and lists of U.S. bases in Iraq

Many (most?) U.S. bases have their own Web pages. Examples of Global Security info about bases (along with satellite imagery), and bases with their own Web pages:

Diego Garcia

• Global Security page; Diego Garcia page

Kosovo

• Camp Bondsteel -- Global Security page; Camp Bondsteel page
• Camp Monteith -- Global Security page; Camp Monteith page

Kyrgyzstan

• Kyrgyzstan facilities from Global Security

Kuwait

• Camp Doha -- Global Security page; Camp Doha page

Qatar

• U.S. military facilities in Qatar

Projection of American Power Worldwide

• National Defense Strategy of the United States of America U.S. Dept. of Defense, March 2005
• National Security Strategy of the United States of America from National Security Council (The White House) 2002
• Access to Offical Strategy, Posture and Commission Documents from The Defense Strategy Review Page of the Project on Defense Alternatives
• Quadrennial Defense Reviews for 2005
• Project for the New American Century
• U.S. Military Spending

Commentary

• From Suez to the Pacific US expands its presence across the globe. By Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor, The Guardian, 3/8/02
• Globalization of Politics: American Foreign Policy for a New Century, by James M. Lindsay and Ivo H. Daalder, Brookings Review, Winter 2003.

originally created in 2002; last rev. 12/05
T. N. Smalley; email me at tosmalle@cabrillo.edu