Quiz Answers

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  1. How many military sites does the United States maintain on foreign soil and in how many countries?

    1. The United States maintains approximately 660 foreign military sites in 38 countries around the world … not counting the number of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Getting a precise number and accounting of foreign military sites is a difficult challenge.
      See:  Nick Turse, The Pentagon’s Planet of Bases, January 9, 2011,

      http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175338/.

  2. Of all the military bases any country maintains on foreign soil, what percent belong to the United States?

    1. U.S. bases constitute 95 percent of all the military bases any country in the world maintains on foreign soil. The projection of military power around the world to which most U.S. citizens have become accustomed is actually quite unusual.
      See: Hugh Gusterson, Empire of Bases, March 10, 2009,


      http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/empire-of-bases.

  3. What is the ratio between U.S. military spending and spending for diplomacy/foreign aid?

    1. The ratio is roughly 14 to 1. The U.S. military budget, including expenditures on the Iraq and Afghan wars totals around $700 billion. The combined spending of the U.S. State Department and USAID totals just under $50 billion.

      See: The State Department and USAID Fact Sheet, April 10, 2013

      http://www.state.gov/r/pa/pl/2013/207212.htm.

  4. U.S. military spending equals that of the next how many countries combined?

    1. At least 10 countries … the next largest country, China, spends roughly $200 billion annually on its military.
      See:
      http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0053_defense-comparison.aspx, P.G. Peterson foundation.

  5. How many companies were awarded U.S. military contracts in 2012?

    1. 50,000 companies.
      See:
      http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/resource_library/contractor_list.pdf.

  6. How many Army recruitment centers are there in the United States? How many Army recruiters?

    1. 8,000 Army recruiters working in 1,600 recruitment stations (does not include Marines, Navy, or Air Force).
      See:
      http://www.usarec.army.mil/support/faqs.htm#recruiters.

  7. How many high schools in the United States have Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs?

    1. Roughly 3,500 high schools. See: The effect of high school JROTC on student achievement, educational attainment, and enlistment. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+effect+of+high+school+JROTC+on+student+achievement,+educational…-a0211173859.

  8. Which Top 100 defense contractor supplies computers to Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite Church USA offices?
    1. Dell.
  9. What was the dollar value of U.S. military equipment transferred to local police departments in 2012?
    1. $546 million. See: America’s police are looking more and more like the military, Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/militarization-local-police-america.
  10. Who said, “Until the late 1960s, taxes were raised mainly to fight wars”?
    1. Understanding Taxes, U.S. Dept. of Treasury, IRS Publication 21, 1983. The percent of tax dollars currently spent on the military depends a lot on how the federal budget pie is calculated. If the budget pie consists only of funds that Congress makes decisions about
      each year, the percent ranges somewhere between 40-60 percent, especially if the interest on the national debt attributable to past wars is included. However if the federal budget pie includes trust funds such as social security, the military percent is lower … somewhere between 25-30 percent.






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