Military policies create the camptown environments that encourage the very behavior they officially condemn.
Evidence
It’s hypocritical, he says: training programs are “telling soldiers to drink responsibly and stay away from juicy girls, but what environment do we create for the soldiers to spend most of their free time in? A ville [camptown] filled with cheap booze and prostitutes.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 553
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Vine’s broader thesis that base infrastructure shapes behavior, and to the camptown sex-industry research covered elsewhere in the book.