Chalmers Johnson discusses US overseas military bases, which cost about $100 billion a year. The US is now building its second-ever costliest "embassy" in Pakistan ($736 million) (the costliest being the embassy in Baghdad).
There are now about 800 US military bases overseas.
Those are not designed to be real embassies "where local people come for visas and American officials represent the commercial and diplomatic interests of their country. Instead these so-called embassies will actually be walled compounds, akin to medieval fortresses, where American spies, soldiers, intelligence officials, and diplomats try to keep an eye on hostile populations in a region at war. One can predict with certainty that they will house a large contingent of marines and include roof-top helicopter pads for quick get-aways."
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