Losses of major bases drove the U.S. to build smaller lily pads worldwide

Evidence

Clark and Subic Bay closed in 1992 after the Filipino government refused to renew a lease on the bases and adopted a new constitution banning foreign bases. A few years later, after the 1999 reversion of the Panama Canal Zone, the U.S. military lost its Panamanian bases as well. Responding to these losses, Bill Clinton’s Pentagon started developing lily pads and other small and medium-sized bases in places such as Ecuador, Aruba, Curaçao, and El Salvador. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 153

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 153