Base closures abroad tend to be offset by new base construction elsewhere

Evidence

Instead, thanks to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the boom in base construction around the world, our base presence abroad has resembled a game of Whac-A-Mole: every time a base has been closed down, another base (or millions in new MilCon spending) has tended to pop up somewhere else. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1057