Deployment Map
2026
2026
An interactive atlas of American overseas military presence, 1950–2026. Personnel counts, facility locations, and host-country public opinion.
Nationally representative online surveys in 14 host countries, 2018–2020, and a Poland follow-up in 2023: about 45,000 respondents. Allen, Flynn, Martinez Machain & Stravers, Beyond the Wire (2023).
Click a country to show it on the left.
DMDC reports count National Guard, Reserve and Department of Defense civilian personnel abroad from 2008. Totals for “All host countries” leave out personnel afloat and in the United States.
Multinational Military Exercises, 1980–2010 (D’Orazio & Galambos 2021). Counts are of exercises, so a large multinational exercise counts once. An exercise can cover more than one domain and focus.