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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, (1977) Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1973) Richard W. Stewart, ed. (2004). American Military History Vol. 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775–1917.
List of active duty United States Army major generals; List of active duty United States four-star officers; List of active duty United States Marine Corps major generals; List of current United States National Guard major generals; List of active duty United States rear admirals; List of active duty United States Space Force general officers
List of active duty United States Marine Corps major generals; List of Adjutants General of the United States Army; List of active duty United States Air Force major generals; List of lieutenant generals in the United States Air Force before 1960; List of United States Air Force four-star generals; List of United States Air Force personnel
Originally established in 1947 when it gained independence from the U.S. Army, it traces its history back through the United States Army Air Forces, United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Service, the Division of Military Aeronautics, Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, to the birth of Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps on ...
List of active duty United States rear admirals; List of active duty United States Air Force major generals; List of active duty United States Space Force general officers; List of active duty United States senior enlisted leaders and advisors; List of current United States National Guard major generals; List of United States Army four-star ...
The chief of staff of the Army, who is the highest-ranked military officer in the army, serves as the principal military adviser and executive agent for the secretary of the Army, i.e., its service chief; and as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a body composed of the service chiefs from each of the four military services belonging to the ...
In domestic peacetime disputes such as riots and labor issues, only operations undertaken by active duty personnel (also called "federal troops" or "U.S. military") are depicted in this article; state defense forces and the National Guard are not included, as they are not fully integrated into the U.S. Armed Forces even if they are federalized ...
The establishment of the Selective Service Act in 1940 allowed for the conscription of millions of American men, dramatically increasing the size of the Army from about 190,000 active-duty personnel in 1940 to over 8 million by 1945.