---
title: "One Chart Shows Where US Troops Are Deployed Across The Planet"
date: "2017-03-22"
modified: "2017-03-22"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/us-troop-deployment-global-chart/"
categories:
  - "Analysis"
  - "News"
---

# One Chart Shows Where US Troops Are Deployed Across The Planet

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/19039337-1.jpg>)

America’s military presence worldwide is about to get even bigger. President Trump’s proposed 10% increase to the Department of Defense budget, a whopping $54 billion, is alone greater than what every country on the planet except China and Saudi Arabia spend on their militaries annually, [according to Quartz](<https://qz.com/937285/donald-trumps-proposed-54-billion-boost-to-defense-spending-is-bigger-than-the-total-annual-military-budget-of-all-but-two-countries/>). Flush with cash, the armed services are locked, stocked, and ready to fight — and then some.

But where exactly does all that fighting power go? The U.S. government [maintains](<https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321>) almost 800 bases in more than 70 countries, making the armed forces a truly global fighting machine. Thanks to this[ remarkable chart from Visual Capitalist](<https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-military-personnel-deployments-country/>), compiled using DoD data updated Feb. 27, we can finally get a sense of where our fighting men and women are stationed throughout the world.

Infographic by Visual Capitalist

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/image-placeholder-title-1185.jpg>)

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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