Relative Costs of Overseas Basing and Rotational Presence

This chapter lays out the analyses we conducted to determine the incremental costs of maintaining the broad range of U.S. installations and forces overseas—by region and type—versus in the United States, and it explains how we embedded the results of these analyses in models that provide a policy-relevant way of comparing how total DoD costs are likely to change as the result of posited posture changes. In doing so, this chapter describes three cost-assessment methodologies and the derived cost models developed to comprehensively estimate the cost effects of changes in posture. The first methodology determines the relative recurring