{"id":1543804,"date":"2025-06-26T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1543804"},"modified":"2025-06-26T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:15:00","slug":"as-peace-breaks-out-heres-where-us-military-facilities-are-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/as-peace-breaks-out-heres-where-us-military-facilities-are-in-the-middle-east\/1543804\/","title":{"rendered":"As &#8216;Peace&#8217; Breaks Out, Here&#8217;s Where US Military Facilities Are In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">As &#8216;Peace&#8217; Breaks Out, Here&#8217;s Where US Military Facilities Are In The Middle East<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Amid a brief pause in proceedings between Iran and Israel,\u00a0The Pentagon states that the <strong>U.S. currently has around 40,000 active-duty troops and Defense Department civilians stationed in the Middle East, <\/strong>with the largest U.S. military site in the region being Qatar\u2019s Al Udeid air base, where some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-military-facilities-middle-east-2025-06-22\/\">10,000 troops are stationed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34660\/us-overseas-military-bases-and-sites-in-the-middle-east\/\">As Statista;s Anna Fleck shows in the chart\u00a0 below, <\/a>according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/natsec\/R48123.pdf\">data<\/a>\u00a0published by the Congressional Research Service, as of July 10, 2024, personnel were based across Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar&#8217;s Al Udeid air base is one of the eight so-called <strong>persistent U.S. military bases<\/strong>, which means that it has been continuously used by the U.S. Department of Defense for at least 15 years, with the U.S. military exercising at least some degree of operational control there.<\/p>\n<p>These permanent bases tend to be the DOD\u2019s largest and most well-known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34660\/us-overseas-military-bases-and-sites-in-the-middle-east\/\" title=\"Infographic: Where U.S. Military Facilities Are in the Middle East | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also marked on this infographic are 11 other selected U.S. military sites. According to the Congressional Research Service, these sites do not meet the persistent bases\u2019 criteria but are places where the DOD maintains some sort of territorially linked presence or access.<\/p>\n<p>This data is <strong>based on unclassified sources<\/strong> and does not include all facilities in the region, including temporary sites, which the U.S. military may use for exercises or contingency operations without planning on turning them into persistent sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 06\/26\/2025 &#8211; 04:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/peace-breaks-out-heres-where-us-military-facilities-are-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/peace-breaks-out-heres-where-us-military-facilities-are-middle-east<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As &#8216;Peace&#8217; Breaks Out, Here&#8217;s Where US Military Facilities Are In The Middle East Amid a brief pause in proceedings between Iran and Israel,\u00a0The Pentagon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1543805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6tC4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/34660-uOSC3q.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}