Self-contained family base communities normalized and legitimized permanent overseas occupation

Evidence

The Little Americas helped enable the permanent peacetime deployment of troops overseas, appeasing GIs, their families, and other Americans upset about the long-term presence of U.S. troops abroad. The city-sized bases that began growing in Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, and beyond in the late 1940s and early 1950s also helped improve relations, legitimizing and normalizing what might have otherwise been seen as permanent occupation. They helped ensure a relatively friendly and stable local environment, thus allowing for the smooth operation of a military unencumbered by major protest or conflict with locals. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 128

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the argument in ‘Grafting & Growth’ about infrastructure as worldbuilding — here the ‘Little Americas’ function as social infrastructure normalizing an otherwise contentious permanent military occupation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 128