Uncle Scam: Going belly up not least because of massive
troop deployments around the globe.
112,000 European Command (Germany, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom)
79,800 Pacific Command (Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Guam, Australia, Diego Garcia, Thailand; not counting troops in Alaska and Hawaii)
11,262 Central Command (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria)
1,280 Southern Command (Colombia and Honduras)
4,258 Joint Forces Command (Bermuda, Cuba, Iceland, Portugal, UK)
15,451 UN and Peacekeeping Forces (Bosnia, Croatia, East Timor, Egypt, Macedonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iraq/Kuwait, Middle East, Western Sahara, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yugoslavia)
224,051 Total
SOURCE: The Military Balance: 2001-2002 (International Institute for Strategic Studies) |
