Does deployment keep military marriages together or break them apart? evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq

Risk and Resilience in U.S. Military Families

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-45

  Karney, Benjamin R ^a   Crown, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 80052583415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7064-0_2     Document Type: Chapter

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