United States military (1775): Continental forces
[31] [us-military-0-31] On a timeline, write the date and place of United States military before any adjective of victory. Year 1775, line “Continental forces,” figure 1861. Do not read the dead as points. 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 st
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. 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.
No tactics of 1863 as a lesson to copy. 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. 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.
Inchon belongs on its battle page; the alliance belongs here. 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. Cost band: not one war -- an institution; human cost sits in the wars this atlas already files. Encyclopedia, not a method.
The timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “Continental forces” is the movement, the figure is 1861 and the year is 1775.1775
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1775
- Figure in the record
- 1861
- Action
- United States military
- Line of the front
- Continental forces