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Map of military operations since 1950. 1950–1953: Korean War: The United States responded to the North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions. U.S. forces deployed in Korea exceeded 300,000 during the last year of the active conflict (1953).
Texas Military Unit(s) Commander Casualties Outcome Reference 1899 Laredo Smallpox Riot Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers: J. H. Rogers 1 WIA Accomplished 1998–Present Operation Lone Star (medical operation unique from 2021 border op) Texas State Guard. Texas Air National Guard. Texas Army National Guard. Ongoing Ongoing 2011–Present
The Forts of Texas include a number of historical and operational military installations. For over 200 years, various groups fought over access to or control over the region that is now Texas . Possession of the region was claimed and disputed by the European powers of Spain and France , and the continental countries of Mexico , the United ...
Noble Eagle (2001) — US military operations to prevent terrorism in the United States. Enduring Freedom – Kyrgyzstan (2001) Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (2002) US military operations and civic assistance based in Djibouti. Enduring Freedom – Philippines (2002) US military operations in the Philippines against Abu Sayyaf insurgents.
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
The deadly conflicts which broke out in the former Yugoslavia in 1991 were the opportunity for NATO to carry out military operations for the first time as the armed arm of the UN: military operations carried out under the aegis of the UN from 1992 quickly showed the limits of the WEU and the EU and required increasingly significant intervention ...
Operation Jump Start was a military operation to aid U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announced by President George W. Bush in May 2006. The mission entailed the deployment of United States National Guard troops along the Mexico–United States border for purposes of enforcement of border security and construction of a border fence.
France was a founding member of NATO which came into existence on 24 August 1949. The first non French NATO tenant in France was the 1630th Air Base Squadron of the USAF Military Air Transport Service, activated in June 1950 at Paris - Orly Air Base. On 28 February 1958 the official name of Orly Air Base was changed to Orly Airport and most ...