Archive Report
Archive Report
Overseas Bases for United States Defense
New Overseas Bases Program and Soviet Reaction
One-Third of the funds scheduled for expenditure under a huge military public works construction program submitted to Congress on June 20 is slated to go into development of bases outside of the continental United States. The bill to authorize the Defense Department's program covers projects estimated to cost $6.6 billion.1 More than $4 billion of the total is earmarked for military installations in this country, and $707 million is designated for bases in American territories and possessions, in American-occupied areas, and in certain foreign countries and possessions. An additional $1.5 billion is included for bases at undisclosed locations. If, as is believed, most of those locations are overseas, the total proposed for bases ...