In the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. criticized excessive U.S. spending on military projects,[68] and suggested a linkage between its foreign policy abroad and racism at home.[68] In 1971, a Time essayist noted 375 major and 3,000 lesser U.S. military facilities worldwide and concluded that "there is no question that the U.S. today has too many troops scattered about in too many places."[2]