Tuesday Map: From the halls of Montezuma to...everywhere

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 6:58 PM Share

Mother Jones

Via Andrew Sullivan, here's a clever interactive map from Mother Jones that color-codes countries by the number of U.S. troops stationed there. The scroll bar allows you to see how levels have changed over time since 1950 in five-year increments. You can watch the troop presence in Vietnam gradually increase over the course of 20 years before disappearing completely, or see the military's several arrivals and departures from Iraq over the last half century. You can also click on a country to get more details.

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NQUIXOTE

7:39 PM ET

August 26, 2008

We have troops in China,

We have troops in China, Burma, and Zimbabwe?

MDC

9:25 AM ET

August 27, 2008

It could be...

...defense attaches at embassies and consulates, I think. Probably wrong, though...

CHRIS

12:22 PM ET

August 27, 2008

SE Asia

There are significantly more troops in Indonesia and Singapore than listed on this map. The official numbers at the US Navy Infectious disease lab in Jakarta (and if anyone believes that's all it is...) plus the marines at the Embassy are higher than 26!

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