Here are links to some of the major reports on this phenomenon of "Violence within the Military" -- or VWM, as of February 2009.

The best overview of VWM we've seen is by Columbia University researcher Helen Benedict in, Violent veterans, The Big Picture,  from the Huffington Post, January 2009.

A particularly shocking set of cases, described in  Army Times, December 2008 involves: Four army recruiter suicides in one unit.

The cumulative impact of multiple deployments is described from the inside in  "Dying to Get Out": A Fort Bragg Army wife blogger writes candidly about GI suicides and the cost of multiple deployments, February 2009.

  "War-Torn": an ongoing New York Times series on violence among and by returned Iraq & Afghanistan veterans which began in January 2009. Its lead sentence: 'The Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war."

"Coming Home," a searching series in Salon.com  on series on VWM, from February 2009  which notes that "suicide is only one manifestation of the unaddressed madness and despair coming home with U.S. troops."

Military Suicides: "The Army Is Killing Itself," from Army Times, February 2009.

US Rep. Jane Harman describes statistics on military sexual assault rates as "jaw-dropping".

Here's a short video report on the vigil against military domestic violence held outside Ft. Bragg in October 2008; Quaker House helped organize it.


   

Quaker House Reports on VWM:
Our Quaker House report from 2002 about the rash of domestic murders and suicides at Ft. Bragg.

Our 2005 report by a Quaker family therapist whose clients are military families, on the costs of multiple deployments.

Our Autumn 2007 Newsletter report about a moving memorial for a murdered Army wife from Ft. Bragg; scroll down to page 2.



A Defense Department release on the Pentagon's work to stop domestic violence. Caution: this document includes many pages of impenetrable military jargon and internal references.