Bush-era plans closed more bases than any period since the Cold War ended

Evidence

Despite the tendency of bases to take on lives of their own, the global transformation plans launched by the Bush administration and carried out by Andy Hoehn and others succeeded in closing more bases than were shuttered at any time since the first four years after the end of the Cold War. Many of the closures have been in Europe, where more than a hundred fifty bases have closed since 2001 and tens of thousands of troops have been withdrawn, mostly from Germany and Britain. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 795