TY - BOOK ID - 80835073 TI - Costs and contributions to support the U.S. military presence overseas : inquiry and analyses PY - 2014 SN - 9781634631518 163463151X 9781634631204 163463120X PB - New York : Nova Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - Armed Forces KW - Military bases, American KW - American military bases KW - Costs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80835073 AB - The United States spends more than 10 billion a year to support our permanent military presence overseas. That does not include military personnel costs or spending to support the war in Afghanistan. Nearly 70 percent of that 10 billion is spent in Germany, the Republic of Korea, and Japan. The fact that such a high percentage of our overseas spending involves those three countries is not surprising. Germany is among our most important partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance President Obama has rightly called ""indispensable to global security and prosperity."" T ER -