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Where U.S. Military Personnel Are Stationed Around the World in 2014

by David Coleman

There’s hardly anywhere in the world that the United States doesn’t have a military presence.

Here’s a map of where active duty U.S. military personnel posted overseas in foreign countries as of June 30, 2014. The figures are from the Defense Manpower Data Center, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

It doesn’t include over 1.1 million military personnel stationed in the United States and its territories, and it doesn’t include 36,345 that are classified as “Undistributed”, a category that includes personnel serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and South Korea, as any unknown/classified locations. Naval personnel at sea are presumably categorized as being stationed on U.S. territory, so aren’t included. It also doesn’t include military dependents, of which there are over 22,000 corresponding to these military personnel in foreign countries.1

In many cases, the military personnel may be attached to the U.S. embassy or other diplomatic post.

The largest deployment is in Japan, followed by Germany, Italy, then the United Kingdom. Here are the 25 largest.


  1. Data from the Defense Manpower Data Center, Office of the Secretary of Defense. ↩

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About David Coleman

Historian. Author of The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis and editor of The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy vols. 4-6. Senior Research Fellow at the National Security Archive.

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