From a Revolutionary militia-and-line mix to the 1947 Pentagon and a Korean War alliance -- force-structure history, not a live ORBAT. The United States military is a set of services whose legal modern shape is the National Security Act of 26 July 1947 (Department of Defense, CIA, a separate Air Force) laid over a much older story: 1775 Continental forces, a small nineteenth-century regular army and navy, a mass
Korea is not a footnote here. 25 June 1950 to the 27 July 1953 armistice was the first large hot war of the 1947 department: MacArthur, then Ridgway; Inchon (15 September 1950); a Chinese intervention; a war that created the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty (1 October 1953). Matthew Ridgway is the correction to the MacArthur photograph.
Check each criteria to confirm findings against the atlas verdict.
From a Revolutionary militia-and-line mix to the 1947 Pentagon and a Korean War alliance -- force-structure history, not a live ORBAT. The United States military is a set of services whose legal modern shape is the National Security Act of 26 July 1947 (Department of Defense, CIA, a separate Air Force) laid over a much older story: 1775 Continental forces, a small nineteenth-century regular army and navy, a mass
Korea is not a footnote here. 25 June 1950 to the 27 July 1953 armistice was the first large hot war of the 1947 department: MacArthur, then Ridgway; Inchon (15 September 1950); a Chinese intervention; a war that created the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty (1 October 1953). Matthew Ridgway is the correction to the MacArthur photograph.
Anglophone memory is thick to the point of distortion: WWII as "the good war," Korea as the forgotten one, Vietnam as the argument. This file will keep 1950-53 in the second paragraph on purpose. No current ORBAT, no special-operations method, no nuclear employment content (see ICBM).
Militia politics, a small regular core, a navy of the early republic, then a mass industrial civil war. Grant is the named closer; the cost band lives on the American Civil War page. A late entry in WW1; a global mobilisation in WW2. Marshall as the institutional builder; Eisenhower and Nimitz as the two-theatre faces. The bomb is an ICBM-and-WW2 file as well as this one.
This explains a campaign, battle, or weapon in context. It is not a league of nations. It does not replace the full topic page.
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