I wouldn't worry too much about maintenance costs, as soon as you've got the opportunity to recruit some engineers. They're just money machines...
Best places to build bases: where you cover the best sponsoring countries/areas (USA, Japan, Europe are the top 3). If you distribute your bases according to this, your radars/hyperwave and aircraft will have a good coverage of pretty much the entire globe as well.
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