Local protest can stop new base construction even when it cannot close existing bases

Evidence

In Okinawa, for example, protesters have failed to remove the Futenma base, but they have dramatically slowed the creation of a new Marine Corps base in Henoko, which now may never get built. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 943

Categorization

• XREF: This mixed-result dynamic parallels the broader tension in the book between winning concessions versus fully closing base systems — and echoes No Dal Molin outcomes discussed in the same chapter. — connects to: Beginning physical construction on a project makes authorities unable to stop it — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 961