The United States armed forces now have more than 200,000 soldiers deployed in one hundred countries of all continents, according to Defense Department reports.
About 9,800 remain in Afghanistan, while about 3,500 in Iraq and Syria under the pretext of fighting Islamic State (IS), most of the latest from the 82nd Airborne Division.
The Navy maintains about 40 ships deployed, the largest of which is the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, with about 5,000 sailors and officers on board-.
In recent days, this naval unit crossed the Suez Canal with its escorts ships to station in the Persian Gulf Gulf and from there to take part in the bombing against the IS targets in the region.
These vessels join the air campaign that Washington and its allies began in August 2014 and extended to Syria in September that year, which operations are labeled illegal by Damascus authorities.
Also in the area of ��the Levant an operates an amphibious group of marines corps capable to fulfill landing missions offensives, and led by the USS Kearsarge, with about 5,000 marines on board.
In Asia Pacific there are about 50 thousand military in Japan, another 28 000 500 in South Korea and nearly 1,000 in Australia and Singapore.
After the experience of the attack in September 2012 against the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other diplomats were killed, the Pentagon took steps to urgently respond to similar situations in the future.
According to the Pentagon, more than 64,000 US troops are stationed in Europe, military enclaves located in Germany, Spain and the former Soviet of the Baltic and another 3,000 in Turkey.
In the last two years Washington increased its military activities in Europe, which actions have been denounced as a threat to their interests.
In Central and South America there are about 5,500 soldiers of the northern country. In areas of the Caribbean, the Pentagon maintained a permanent naval presence under pretext of the war on drugs, while in Cuba is the Guantanamo naval base, located in the territory of the island against the will of the Government and people of the Greater Antilles.
President Barack Obama announced last October 15 its decision to keep the 9,800 soldiers currently in Afghanistan and reduce that amount to 5,500 in early 2017, after the end of his term as head of the White House.
— source plenglish.com