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The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence. It has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed on 14 June 1775 to fight against the British for independence during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be the origin of that armed force in 1775. The U.S. Army is a uniformed service of the United States and is part of the Department of the Army, which is one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the chief of staff of the Army (CSA) who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is the largest military branch, and in the fiscal year 2022, the projected end strength for the Regular Army (USA) was 480,893 soldiers; the Army National Guard (ARNG) had 336,129 soldiers and the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) had 188,703 soldiers; the combined-component strength of the U.S. Army was 1,005,725 soldiers. As a branch of the armed forces, the mission of the U.S. Army is "to fight and win our Nation's wars, by providing prompt, sustained land dominance, across the full range of military operations and the spectrum of conflict, in support of combatant commanders". The branch participates in conflicts worldwide and is the major ground-based offensive and defensive force of the United States of America. Mission The United States Army serves as the land-based branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. Section 7062 of Title 10, U.S. Code defines the purpose of the army as: Preserving the peace and security and providing for the defense of the United States, the Commonwealths and possessions, and any areas occupied by the United States Supporting the national policies Implementing the national objectives Overcoming any nations responsible for aggressive acts that imperil the peace and security of the United States In 2018, the Army Strategy 2018 articulated an eight-point addendum to the Army Vision for 2028. While the Army Mission remains constant, the Army Strategy builds upon the Army's Brigade Modernization by adding focus to corps and division-level echelons. The Army Futures Command oversees reforms geared toward conventional warfare. The Army's current reorganization plan is due to be completed by 2028. The Army's five core competencies are prompt and sustained land combat, combined arms operations (to include combined arms maneuver and wide–area security, armored and mechanized operations and airborne and air assault operations), special operations forces, to set and sustain the theater for the joint force, and to integrate national, multinational, and joint power on land. History Origins The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Second Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. The army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, and military thinking helped shape the new army. A number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught Prussian Army tactics and organizational skills. The Army fought numerous pitched battles, and sometimes used Fabian strategy and hit-and-run tactics in the South in 1780 and 1781; under Major General Nathanael Greene, it hit where the British were weakest to wear down their forces. Washington led victories against the British at Trenton and Princeton, but lost a series of battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the Philadelphia campaign in 1777. With a decisive victory at Yorktown and the help of the French, the Continental Army prevailed against the British. After the war, the Continental Army was quickly given land certificates and disbanded in a reflection of the republican distrust of standing armies. State militias became the new nation's sole ground army, except a regiment to guard the Western Frontier and one battery of artillery guarding West Point's arsenal. However, because of continuing conflict with Native Americans, it was soon considered necessary to field a trained standing army. The Regular Army was at first very small and after General St. Clair's defeat at the Battle of the Wabash, where more than 800 soldiers were killed, the Regular Army was reorganized as the Legion of the United States, established in 1791 and renamed the United States Army in 1796. In 1798, during the Quasi-War with France, the U.S. Congress established a three-year "Provisional Army" of 10,000 men, consisting of twelve regiments of infantry and six troops of light dragoons. In March 1799, Congress created an "Eventual Army" of 30,000 men, including three regiments of cavalry. Both "armies" existed only on paper, but equipment for 3,000 men and horses was procured and stored. 19th century War of 1812 and Indian Wars The War of 1812, the second and last war between the United States and Great Britain, had mixed results. The U.S. Army did not conquer Canada but it did destroy Native American resistance to expansion in the Old Northwest and it validated its independence by stopping two major British invasions in 1814 and 1815. After taking control of Lake Erie in 1813, the U.S. Army seized parts of western Upper Canada, burned York and defeated Tecumseh, which caused his Western Confederacy to collapse. Following U.S. victories in the Canadian province of Upper Canada, British troops who had dubbed the U.S. Army "Regulars, by God!", were able to capture and burn Washington, which was defended by militia, in 1814. The regular army, however, proved they were professional and capable of defeating the British army during the invasions of Plattsburgh and Baltimore, prompting British agreement on the previously rejected terms of a status quo antebellum. Two weeks after a treaty was signed (but not ratified), Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans and siege of Fort St. Philip with an army dominated by militia and volunteers, and became a national hero. U.S. troops and sailors captured HMS Cyane, Levant and Penguin in the final engagements of the war. Per the treaty, both sides (the United States and Great Britain) returned to the geographical status quo. Both navies kept the warships they had sei.... Discover the United States Government Us Army popular books. Find the top 100 most popular United States Government Us Army books.
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Destined For War
Graham AllisonNATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastro...
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Overthrow
Stephen KinzerStephen Kinzer's Overthrow provides a fastpaced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments not ...
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Clouds of Glory
Michael KordaNew York Times Bestseller"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." Boston GlobeMichael Korda, the acclaimed b...
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Dear America
Graham AllenA U.S. Army veteran and rising star in the conservative movement makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on September 12th, 2001 for lessons abou...
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State vs. Defense
Stephen GlainA masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrup...
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Dereliction of Duty
H. R. McMaster"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." H. R. McMast...
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The Hidden History of the White House
Corey MeadPresented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behindthescenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American his...
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Surprise Attack
Larry HancockSurprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of thos...
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The Plot to Kill King
William F. PepperBestselling author, James Earl Ray’s defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK.William Pepper was James Earl Ray’s law...
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Eagle Down
Jessica DonatiA Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State f...
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Blood Song
Terry C. JohnstonBlood SongTerry C. JohnstonFrontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy ho...
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The Fall of Baghdad
Jon Lee AndersonIn the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, this New Yorker correspondent “embedded’ himself among the people of Baghdad and, along with a small number of other West...
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Homeland
Richard BeckA groundbreaking history of how the decadeslong war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we ...
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The Eye You See With
Robert Stone & Madison Smartt BellThe definitive collection of nonfictionfrom war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writingfrom the “legend of American letters” (Vanity Fair) Robert Stone wa...
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv ChandrasekaranNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Book Award Finalist This "eyewitness history of the first order ... should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so ba...
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Through the Perilous Fight
Steve VogelIn a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable ...
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Deep Strike
Rick CampbellIn Rick Campbell's next actionpacked thriller Deep Strike, the U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarinefunded by ISISen route to launch a missile attack a...
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My American Journey
Colin L. Powell & Joseph E. Persico#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A great American success story . . . an endearing and wellwritten book.”The New York Times Book ReviewColin Powell is the embodiment of the Amer...
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Oswald and the CIA
John NewmanFrom the acclaimed author of JFK and Vietnam comes a book that uncovers the government's role in the Kennedy assassination more clearly than any previous inquiry. What was the exte...
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The Lies of George W. Bush
David Corn“George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. He has mugged the truthnot merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repeatedly....
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Rendezvous with Destiny
Michael FulliloveThe remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War IIIn the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in...
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Full Spectrum Dominance
Rahul MahajanIn this compelling bigpicture assessment of the U.S. war on Iraq, Mahajan combines his experience as an anti–Iraq sanctions activist with a keen analysis of U.S. foreign policy in ...
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The French Betrayal of America
Kenneth R. TimmermanCan we trust France? Apparently not. After more than 200 years of shared history and interests, the U.S.France marriage looks as if it's ending in an acrimonious divorce. Here is t...
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Beyond Vietnam
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.With a new foreword by Viet Thanh NguyenA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam,” part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by ...
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Need to Know
Nicholas ReynoldsOne of The New Yorker's "Best Books of the Year" A Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize Finalist"Authoritative. . . . [Reynolds's] contribution to our understanding of the rise o...
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Thank You for Voting
Erin Geiger SmithIn this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, a...
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The Broken Constitution
Noah FeldmanA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doerAbraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassio...
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Rise of the Vulcans
James MannWhen George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the ...
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The Connection
Stephen F. HayesIn the wake of 9/11 no one knew when the next attack would come, or where it would come from. America's enemies seemed gathered on all sides, and for several nerveracking months, w...
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Generation Kill
Evan WrightBased on Evan Wright's National Magazine Awardwinning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini...
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The Free State of Jones and The Echo of the Black Horn
Thomas Jefferson Knight, Ethel Knight & Jim KellySubject of the upcoming film Free State of Jones, this book provides recollections of the man who took on the Confederacy during the Civil War and established the liberated Mississ...
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Black Wave
Kim GhattasA New York Times Notable Book of 2020 “[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how th...
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American Conspiracies
Jesse Ventura & Dick RussellA New York Times Best Seller!New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn’t know about!In this explosive accou...
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The Eleventh Day
Anthony Summers & Robbyn SwanFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it hav...
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Spreading the American Dream
Emily RosenbergIn examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign r...
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The Missing JFK Assassination Film
Gayle Nix JacksonOrville Nix is not the typical JFK assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer the question of who killed John F. Kennedy; instead, it addresses why we should question...
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The Forgotten Soldier
Brad TaylorIn this heartstopping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor, Pike Logan returns with his most dangerous and personal threat yet: a Taskforce Operato...
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Escaping the Rabbit Hole
Mick WestRevised and updated for the first time in 2023Now includes strategies for debunking conspiracies regarding the coronavirus pandemic, election fraud, QAnon, UFOs, and more. The Eart...