* Note:In case it is unclear what a FOL is, an anonymous Pentagon source told a Miami Herald reporter that FOLs are "expandable warm facilities maintained with a limited U.S. military support presence and possibly prepositioned equipment," such as the Incirlik Airbase in Turkey and the Soto Cano Airbase in Honduras. Some call the FOLs clandestine bases with no documented officially recognized status. A glimpse of what might be in store for Colombia is Afghanistan, where roughly half of the soldiers fighting for the U.S. Government are mercenaries under contract.
Other types of foreign military bases are "Main operating bases," which have permanent personnel, strong infrastructure, and often family housing, such as the Kadena Airbase in Japan and the Ramstein Airbase in Germany. Another type is "cooperative security locations," which are sites with few or no permanent U.S. personnel, maintained by contractors, or mercenaries & made available by the host nation for occasional use by the U.S. military.
Bear in mind that according to the Defense Department's (DOD) annual "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2008, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 761 overseas bases in roughly 130 countries which includes 322,000 hectares of land with an inventory of weapons worth trillions of U.S. dollars. Others suggest there are at least 900 U.S. military facilities in 46 countries and territories, accommodating 190,000 U.S. troops and 115,000 civilian employees, all taken from "official government figures. None of the above includes what the DOD calls "other sites, nor does it include the numerous unclassified, or "black, sites & temporary sites operated by the U.S. Government. In Central & South America, the DOD admits to 46 active bases in Colombia with 8 "other sites. In Ecuador the U.S. has 27 active bases & 0 "other. In Peru, the Navy maintains an active Naval Medical Research Center in Lima. It might be interesting to tour that place.
We are now the most lethal military empire in history. As before, now & always it is a one way road to unimaginable horror & violence.
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