How do military families cope with multiple deployments abroad of loved ones?

Compared to the Cold War period and, to a lesser extent, the era of the mass armed forces, there is a greater need for today’s postmodern armies to provide psychosocial support to their personnel participating in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and even more so after 9/11, there has been a multiplication of crisis response operations carried out by multinational task forces all over the world for more or less extended periods.