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Seeks to penetrate the logic, social structure, and daily practice of life in American military communities in Germany Army life has always been known as a life of sacrifice, challenge, and frustration, yet one filled also with deep satisfactions. This is so for the soldiers families as much as for the soldiers themselves. Over the years, military and civilian leaders of the US Army have tried to reduce the hardships of military life by creating an array of community services designed to provide social support for soldiers and families and help them live satisfying lives in military communities. Unfortunately, this effort has not been particularly successful, and frustration, dissatisfaction, and alienation persist among soldiers and family member in the US Army communities in Germany. Discontent continues because the underlying sources of alienation in the Army and among its families are highly complex, poorly understood, and therefore hardly addressed by the Armys quality-of-life programs that are intended to make solider and family life more bearable. In Army of Hope, Army of Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany , the author seeks to pen

Author

John P. Hawkins

Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817351748

Subjects

Sociology, History, Military