Bureaucratic inertia kept a pointless U.S. base operating after its mission ended

Evidence

Still, Soto Cano didn’t close. While overall U.S. military spending in Honduras declined significantly, “exercises were continuing through sheer bureaucratic inertia,” one former Army and Foreign Service officer explains. “Even though the original rationale for the base was disappearing, no one seemed to be considering packing up and going home.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 296

Categorization

• XREF: Illuminates the general failure mode of permanent institutions that outlive their original rationale.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 296