The Massive US Military Machine
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The Massive US Military Machine: $596 Billion Defense Budget, 800 Plus Military Bases
Infograph. The US military machine and its global presence in charts
By Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Trump’s budget for 2018, proposes cutting lots of stuff, from the EPA to the NEA and even small cuts at NASA. One of the few departments that will not see any cuts was the US Department of Defense.
In 2015, Politico estimated that there are 800 U.S. bases abroad. The cots to maintain this massive military global footprint runs up to $100 billion annually.
The Visual Capitalist has summed up the huge US military machine the Infograph and accompanying charts below…
Via The Visual Capitalist..
If the proposed budget ultimately passes in Congress, the DoD would be allocated an extra $54 ...