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2001: On April 1, 2001, a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States and the People's Republic of China called the Hainan Island incident.
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The organization played a prominent role in Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks, when the United States invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which interprets an external attack on any member to be an attack on all NATO members under the idea of collective defense. NATO has participated in a wide range of roles elsewhere ...
Pages in category "United States military history timelines" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
25 December 1959: 1960 Laotian coups, in Military Region 5 (M5) 10 August 1960: 1960 Laotian coups, in MR 5; 13–16 December 1960: Battle of Vientiane, in MR 5; 17 January 1961 – 30 September 1974: Operation Momentum, in Military Region 2 (MR 2) 31 January – 6 June 1961: Battle of Ban Pa Dong, in Military Region 1 (MR 1)
Graph of US military deployments per year. The largest number of deployments in any one year was 29 in 2017, followed by 16 in 2019, 15 in 2014, and 14 in 2018. A few deployments were not for combat, including three evacuations in 1974 and 75 and typhoon relief in 2012 and 13.
The head of the U.S. military in Africa vigorously defended the country’s counterterrorism strategy on the continent and vowed to press forward with it despite a wave of criticism and a drift ...
(10 years, 8 months, 1 week and 4 days) Iraq: 15 June 2014 – 9 December 2021 (7 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 3 days) Iraq (By DOD Directive): 31 January 2023 - 31 December 2024 (1 year and 11 months) Syria: 22 September 2014 – present (10 years, 5 months and 4 days) Libya: 13 November 2015 – 30 October 2019