ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys historical scholarship that explores gender, sexuality, and military families with regard to the US military and its relations with foreign countries, including their inhabitants. Studies of US military personnel's sexual interactions and other social relationships with people abroad illuminate how the military has framed its relations with foreign nations, and how it exercised its power in carrying out US foreign policies. The chapter considers selected scholarly books and articles that illustrate key themes and recurring questions in the literature. It deals with those dedicated to examining the topics of gender, sexuality, and families in connection with the US military abroad and its personnel's interactions with local inhabitants. The chapter also considers other studies that do not exclusively or extensively examine these topics but point to possibilities for further research. Births of children fathered by US servicemen at foreign posts have long been a consequence of maintaining the US military presence abroad.
