A new department, a new air force, NATO (1949), then Korea. MacArthur's relief (11 April 1951) is a civil-military hinge, not a personality show only. All-volunteer force; Goldwater-Nichols; a long post-9/11 period already thick in public files. This page stops at institutional hinges and will not become a current campaign tracker or a SOF manual.
1973-86-present as history stays dated: 1941-45 (Global mobilisation) in A continental republic that became a global basing and alliance system after 1941. Dwight D. Eisenhower (General / president) is a named witness -- Europe's named Supreme Commander and a 1950s president of the alliance age -- including a Korea endgame in 1953 politics.
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A new department, a new air force, NATO (1949), then Korea. MacArthur's relief (11 April 1951) is a civil-military hinge, not a personality show only. All-volunteer force; Goldwater-Nichols; a long post-9/11 period already thick in public files. This page stops at institutional hinges and will not become a current campaign tracker or a SOF manual.
1973-86-present as history stays dated: 1941-45 (Global mobilisation) in A continental republic that became a global basing and alliance system after 1941. Dwight D. Eisenhower (General / president) is a named witness -- Europe's named Supreme Commander and a 1950s president of the alliance age -- including a Korea endgame in 1953 politics.
The US military's honest twentieth-century sentence is 1947 plus 1950 -- a legal department that went to war on the Korean peninsula before it had finished unpacking. Keep Draft to volunteer pinned to 1949 (NATO): A European alliance structure.
It was the first US mass industrial army and a cost on the American Civil War page. It is not the origin of the 1947 department. 1950-53 was the first large hot war of that department and produced the 1953 US-ROK treaty. Inchon, Ridgway, and the armistice are dated hinges. See the Korean War and Inchon pages.
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