Family support became a labor issue to retain volunteer troops

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• Military family support emerged as a retention strategy, not philanthropy (similarity 0.84)
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions (similarity 0.81)
• Military family members on bases fall under the military’s total institution power (similarity 0.81)
• The all-volunteer force made military families an $8 billion annual expense (similarity 0.81)
• The end of conscription in 1973 drove the military to hire cheap foreign contractors (similarity 0.80)
• Retention pressure after the draft ended drove cushier base comforts and contractor pay (similarity 0.79)
• Family quality-of-life became a retention strategy after the draft ended (similarity 0.78)
• Freed slaves turned ruined plantations into independent subsistence family plots (similarity 0.78)