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Making War at Fort Hood provides an illuminating check out battle through the daily lives of people whose job it is to create it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted each year of intense fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach stretches way beyond the battlefield into military services communities where assault is as boring, monotonous, and normal as it is stunning and traumatic. Fort Hood is one of the greatest military installations on the globe, and lots of the 55,000 workers structured there have offered multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. MacLeish provides close portraits of Fort Hood's soldiers and those closest to them, sketching on numerous in-depth interviews and diverse ethnographic material. He explores the exceptional position that soldiers occupy with regards to violence--not only trained to struggle and destroy, but placed intentionally in harm's way and offered up to perish. The death and damage of war happen to soldiers on purpose. MacLeish interweaves gripping narrative with critical theory and anthropological research to vividly illustrate this unique condition of vulnerability. On the way, he sheds new light on the dynamics of military services family life, stereotypes of veterans, what it means for civilians to state "many thanks" to soldiers, and other questions about the sometimes normal, sometimes agonizing labor of earning war. Making War at Fort Hood is the first ethnography to look at the every day lives of the soldiers, families, and neighborhoods who personally carry the burden of America's most recent wars.
