Military Families and War in the 21st Century

<p>This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before during and after missions. </p><p>Today’s postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and even more so after 9/11 separations between military personnel and their families have become more frequent as there has been a multitude of missions carried out by multinational task forces all over the world. The book focuses on three central questions affecting military families. First how do changing missions and tasks of the military affect soldiers and families? Second what is the effect of deployments on the ones left behind? Third what is the national structure of family support systems and its evolution? </p><p>The book employs a multidisciplinary approach with contributions from psychology sociology history anthropology and others. In addition it covers all the services Army Navy/Marines Air Force spanning a wide range of countries including UK USA Belgium Turkey Australia and Japan. At the same time it takes a multitude of perspectives such as the theoretical empirical reflective life events (narrative) approach national and the global and uses approaches from different disciplines and perspectives combining them to produce a volume that enhances our knowledge and understanding of military families. </p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of military studies sociology war and conflict studies and IR/political science in general.</p>