Family-friendly base construction made the permanent worldwide troop deployment politically acceptable

Evidence

“The success of the domesticating reforms,” says the economist John Willoughby, “permitted President Truman to double the troop presence during the Korean War crisis with few complaints from the German state” or from U.S. citizens back home. In short, the construction of Little Americas in Western Europe and Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, was critical to making the base nation a permanent feature of Cold War life. When the Cold War ended, however, the Little Americas, and the permanent war footing they represent, would not disappear. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 129

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 129