Established in 1996, it hosts around 11,000 American and coalition service members. The largest US military installation in the Middle East is the Al Udeid Air Base, located west of Doha, Qatar. US military presence in the Middle EastДЄccording 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. Like the US bases, the countries with the most number of US troops include Japan with 53,700, Germany with 33,900 and South Korea with 26,400. The remaining 40 percent of US foreign bases fall under this category.ДЄccording to global US military deployment data published in the Conflict Management and Peace Science Journal, the US had around 173,000 troops deployed in 159 countries as of 2020. These include cooperative security locations and forward operating sites. Small bases or вЂњLily PadsвЂќ: These bases are smaller than 4 hectares(10 acres) or have a value of less than $10 million. 439 or 60 percent of the USвЂ™s foreign bases fall under this category. These bases typically have in excess of 200 US military personnel. Large bases or вЂњBasesвЂќ: Defined as military installations larger than 4 hectares (10 acres) or worth more than $10 million. US military base sites fall under two main categories: With 120 active bases, Japan has the highest number of US bases in the world followed by Germany with 119 and South Korea with 73. The actual number may be even higher as not all data is published by the Pentagon. Upwards of 750 US bases around the worldДЄccording to David Vine, вЂ‹вЂ‹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. While no US troops remain on the ground today, US President Joe Biden said that his military will continue to conduct air raids against enemy targets from вЂњover-the-horizonвЂќ вЂ“ air missions from a vast network of US bases around the region. In total, more than 800,000 US soldiers served in the war according to the Pentagon. In the early morning hours of August 31, the last American soldiers lifted off from Kabul airport, officially ending the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the longest in US history.ДЄt its peak in 2011, the US had approximately 100,000 troops across at least 10 military bases from Bagram to Kandahar.

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