The United States has, by a significant margin, more military bases on foreign soil than any nation in history. The U.S. has somewhere between 750 and 800 – and even that number is contested, partly because the Pentagon stopped publishing a full Base Structure Report and partly because many facilities are classified entirely. These bases range from massive cities-within-cities to tiny radar installations in remote locations.
A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any “base, camp, post, station, yard, center, or other activity under the jurisdiction … [or] operational control of the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Defense.” An installation or group of installations may, in turn, serve as a base, which DOD defines as “a locality from which operations are projected or supported.”
Here are some of the United States military bases around the world.
- Australia
- Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station
- Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt
- Pine Gap
- Robertson Barracks
- Bahamas
- Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center
- Bahrain
- Naval Support Activity Bahrain
- Chièvres Air Base
- Bulgaria
- Aytos Logistics Center
- Bezmer Air Base
- Graf Ignatievo Air Base
- Novo Selo Range
- Cameroon
- Contingency Location Garoua, Garoua
- Canada
- CFB North Bay
- Cuba
- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
- Djibouti
- Camp Lemonnier
- Estonia
- Ämari Air Base
- Germany
- Ansbach
- NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen
- Buchel Air base
- Dagger Complex, Darmstadt Training Center Griesheim
- Grafenwöhr Training Area, Grafenwöhr/Vilseck
- Hohenfels Training Area/Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels (Upper Palatinate)
- Kaiserslautern Military Community
- Katterbach Kaserne, Ansbach
- Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart
- Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim
- Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl
- Maritime & International Law-U.S. Africa Command
- Panzer Kaserne, Böblingen
- Patch Barracks, Stuttgart
- Ramstein Air Base
- Robinson Barracks, Stuttgart
- Sembach Kaserne, Kaiserslautern
- Shipton Kaserne, Ansbach
- Spangdahlem Air Base
- Storck Barracks, Illesheim
- Greece
- Crete Naval Base
- Greenland (Denmark)
- Pituffik Space Base
- Honduras
- Soto Cano Air Base
- Israel
- Dimona Radar Facility
- Site 512
- Italy
- Aviano Air Base
- Caserma Ederle and Camp Darby
- Naval Support Activity Naples
- Sigonella Naval Air Station
- Iraq
- Harir Air Base, Erbil Governorate
- Japan
- Camp Zama
- Fort Buckner
- Kadena Air Base, Okinawa Prefecture
- Kanoya Air Field, Kagoshima Prefecture
- Misawa Air Base, Misawa, Aomori
- Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa
- Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa
- Camp Courtney
- Camp Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture
- Camp Foster
- Camp Gonsalves (Jungle Warfare Training Center)
- Camp Hansen
- Camp Kinser
- Camp McTureous
- Camp Schwab
- Camp Shields
- Naval Air Facility Atsugi
- Naval Forces Japan, Okinawa
- Sagami General Depot
- U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa
- United States Fleet Activities Sasebo
- United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
- Yokota Air Base, Tokyo
- Jordan
- Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Azraq
- Tower 22 outpost, Rukban
- Kenya
- Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Lamu
- Kosovo
- Camp Bondsteel
- Kuwait
- Camp Arifjan
- Camp Buehring
- Camp Patriot
- Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base
- Ali Al Salem Air Base
- Lithuania
- Camp Herkus, Pabradė
- Šiauliai Air Base
- Marshall Islands
- Bucholz Army Airfield
- Netherlands
- USCG Activities Europe
- Volkel Air Base
- Norway
- Joint Warfare Center
- Poland
- Camp Kościuszko
- 33rd Air Base, Powidz
- Łask Air Base
- Redzikowo missile defense complex
- Portugal
- Lajes Air Base
- Qatar
- Al Udeid Air Base
- Romania
- Câmpia Turzii Air Base
- Deveselu Military Base
- Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base
- Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Maritime Infrastructure Protection Force
- Singapore
- Changi Air Base
- Changi Naval Base
- Somalia
- Baledogle Airfield
- South Korea
- Busan Naval Base
- Camp Mujuk
- Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae
- Kunsan Air Base
- Osan Air Base
- Spain
- Morón Air Base
- Naval Station Rota
- Syria
- Al-Tanf garrison
- Rumalyn
- Turkey
- Incirlik Air Base
- Izmir Air Station
- Kürecik Radar Station
- United Arab Emirates
- Al Dhafra Air Base
- United Kingdom
- RAF Alconbury, Huntingdonshire
- RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire
- RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire
- RAF Lakenheath, Brandon, Suffolk
- RAF Mildenhall, Mildenhall, Suffolk
- RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire
- British overseas territories
- Ascension Island Auxiliary Airfield
- Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia
