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In June 2020, the Trump administration began deploying federal law enforcement forces to select cities in the United States in response to rioting and monument removals amid the George Floyd protests.
The military of the United States is deployed in most countries around the world, with approximately 160,000 of its active-duty personnel stationed outside the United States and its territories. This list consists of deployments excepting active combat deployments, including troops in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia.
This timeline of United States government military operations, based in part on reports by the Congressional Research Service, shows the years and places in which U.S. military units participated in armed conflicts or occupation of foreign territories.
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- Upwards of 750 US bases around the world. According to David Vine, professor of political anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC, the US had around 750 bases in at least 80 countries as of July 2021.
- US military presence in the Middle East. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, between 1.9 and three million US service members have served in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001, with over half of them deployed more than once.
- US military presence in Japan and South Korea. The US has been in Japan since the end of World War II (1939-1945) and in South Korea since the Korean War (1950-1953).
- US military presence in Europe. Europe is home to at least 60,000 US troops. At 33,900, Germany has the highest number of US troops in Europe – and the second highest in the world – followed by Italy at 12,300 and the UK at 9,300.
Sep 20, 2021 · The Trump administration closed some bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. President Biden has made a good start by withdrawing U.S. forces from bases in Afghanistan. Our previous estimates, as recently as 2020, were that the United States held 800 bases abroad (see Map 1).
The above map depicts the United States’ control of almost 800 military bases around the world, spattered across at least 80 countries. Japan has the highest number of American military bases in the world at 120, followed by Germany with 119, and then South Korea with 73.
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