Comfortable family-oriented base life normalized permanent troop deployments abroad
Evidence
- Willoughby, Conquering Heroes, 150; Nelson, Forces in Germany, 55–56. The presence of families and the comforts of Little Americas normalized the peacetime deployment of U.S. troops abroad and the long-term occupation of sovereign countries in Western Europe and Japan for Americans and people in the occupied countries alike. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1169