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What we can learn by looking at where world powers have military bases

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How do you measure a country’s global influence? Military might is one way, or as we have done below, via a visualisation of where countries have permanent bases.

Technology, nuclear capabilities, air and sea capacity and sheer numbers all have a bearing on military power. But these maps, from Statista, help show the geographic spread of the armies of the permanent members of the UN Security Council.

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The US has troops stationed in no less than 30 countries, including Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

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While Russia’s influence waned since the height of the Cold War it is being aggressively reasserted by Vladimir Putin, and it maintains bases in tencountries across Europe and Asia - and almost certainly has troops in Ukraine to boot.

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China may not have any overseas troops, but its army is the largest in the world, with 2.3million active personnel.

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France’s military is still active across Western Africa, where it’s involved in fighting Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali. France also has military bases in overseas territories: French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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The UK has eight overseas military bases, including one in Diego Garcia, a tiny atoll in the Indian Ocean that was also part-leased to the US.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/what-we-can-learn-by-looking-at-where-world-powers-have-military-bases--ekA6imNAWW
 

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We can learn a lot by looking at where world powers place their military bases.

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Just take a look at this picture. Each US flag represents a base. A picture is worth a thousand words, right?
 

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Based on that map where military bases and interests are located, no country can match the US. I am glad because the US, for me, is a good and kind country that tries to oversee the world. In a recent brush with China in the Spratlys, the US backed out but not without retaliating by posting an aircraft carrier in Japan. That may have stalled China's bullying somehow.
 
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