Military self-sufficiency gave way to contractors during the Vietnam War.

Evidence

Once upon a time, the military, not contractors, built and ran U.S. bases. Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and airwomen built the barracks, cleaned the clothes, and peeled the potatoes. But this started changing during the Vietnam War, when Brown & Root began building major military installations in South Vietnam as part of a contractor consortium. Brown & Root enjoyed deep ties with President Lyndon Johnson dating back to the 1930s, leading to well-founded suspicions that Johnson personally steered contracts to the company. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 680

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contractor-run base construction began in the Vietnam War era.; Outsourced base construction began during the Vietnam War through Brown & Root
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Contractor-run base construction began in the Vietnam War era.; Outsourced base construction began during the Vietnam War through Brown & Root