How many troops do we have overseas anyways?

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A timely post by Marc Thiessen over at The Enterprise Blog has the list.  Given that Ron Paul (and a few other Republican nominee candidates for Prez) are saying "Bring them all home"), the question is "how many are there really"?

Here’s the count (reformated):

Belgium 1,234 Bahrain 1,894
Germany 54,198 Diego Garcia (UK) 286
Greece 378 Egypt 273
Italy 10,771 Qatar 678
Netherlands 433 Saudi Arabia 435
Portugal 731 Djibouti 334
Spain 1,483 Honduras 358
Turkey 1,511 Cuba (Guantanamo Bay) 881
United Kingdom 9,436 Soviet Union 164
Australia 178 Canada 131
Japan 40,178 Greenland 135
Philippines 182 Singapore 157
Thailand 162 United Arab Emirates 140
Korea 35 – 65,000 Uganda 100

Add to that (perhaps already mixed in?) are the approximate 900 Marines that make up the Marine Security Guard Battalion deployed overseas; their mission is to protect our embassies all over the world.

Take out Korea, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the UK, and there really are not all that many deployed (and yes, this ignores the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).

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