Bureaucratic inertia kept Soto Cano open despite vanishished rationale

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: Bureaucratic inertia in keeping bases matches the theme in earlier chapters about base closings being resisted regardless of strategic merit. — connects to: GAO found Soto Cano’s original purpose gone but the base remained; Even a Pentagon-backed study found Soto Cano serves no strategic purpose
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 296