re: Are there foreign militaries in the United States?

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If we have military personnel in 150 countries, I suspect the vast majority will be military details that work out of the U.S. embassy in these countries, and maybe a small garrison. If there isn't a base, small garrison or embassy, there are two context I can think of to account for some of these countries:

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Yea, people throw out that stat like it means something but in the vast majority of those countries, it's just a small garrison or outpost or joint thing. Only about 14 countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, UK, Turkey, Djibouti, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Korea, and Australia) have any sizable number of American servicemen there. We have good geopolitical reasons to be in all those places.