In the first half of the 1990s, the U.S. government gave up around 60 percent of its foreign bases and brought almost three hundred thousand troops back to the United States. … Still, despite the disappearance of the Eastern Bloc, hundreds of U.S. bases and sixty thousand U.S. troops remained in Germany alone. Globally, in 2001—more than a decade after the end of the Cold War—around one thousand bases and hundreds of thousands of troops remained overseas.

David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Milit…, loc. 130