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The Pentagon. Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson – located 12 kilometers (8 miles) north of Anchorage, Alaska. Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam – located 11 kilometers (7 miles) northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst – located 29 kilometers (18 miles) south of Trenton, New Jersey.
There are nine major U.S. military bases that were formerly named in honor of Confederate military leaders, all in former Confederate States. All were renamed in 2023: Fort Benning (1917), near Columbus, Georgia , named for Confederate General Henry L. Benning , was redesignated Fort Moore on 11 May 2023 in honor of General Hal Moore and his ...
List of Indian Air Force stations. List of Israel Defense Forces bases. List of Pakistan Air Force Bases. Military installations of Turkey. List of military installations in Iraq. List of military installations in Saudi Arabia. List of Singapore Armed Forces bases. List of Sri Lankan air force bases.
The destruction of the Iraqi Air Force was probably one of the most complete such actions in the history of military aviation. Although most of the former "Super Bases" have been de-militarized and today are abandoned facilities being reclaimed by the desert, a few were refurbished and were subsequently used by Army, Air Force and Marine units.
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
This is a list of countries with overseas military bases. Camp Humphreys , the largest United States overseas military base by population, with a combined military and civilian population of 40,000. Pituffik Space Base , the largest United States overseas military base by area, at 66,000 hectares.
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam, include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel. Some countries, such as Italy and Japan, have only volunteers in their armed forces. Other countries, such as Mauritius ...