Lily pads grant the U.S. Subic-era access without the political costs of large garrisons

Evidence

Together, this complex of lily pads, exercises, port visits, medical activities, and access agreements means, as Docena says, that the U.S. military now has “everything—and arguably more—than it had in Subic and Clark.” Only now, it has this broad presence “without the economic and political costs of maintaining large garrison-like bases that can serve as visible symbols for the opposition.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 987

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s stated purpose on how bases harm the host nation; the key counterintuitive payoff of the lily-pad strategy.