Stilwell, Joseph W., 374, 389, 408
Stimson, Henry L., 294, 305, 405, 441, 445
Stingray operations, 529
Stoddert, Benjamin, 91
Stones River (Murfreesboro), Battle of, 179–80, 187
STRANGLE, 470–71
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 444–47, 450, 465, 476, 480–87, 494, 506, 517–22, 526, 530–34, 567, 609
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), 579, 590
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (1992), 607–608
Strategic bombing, 378, 406, 408, 409–415, 430–32
Strategic Command, 609
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 579, 608, 612
Strategic Hamlet Program, 514
Strategic Rocket Forces (SRF), 476
Strauss, Lewis, 447
Strike Command, 503
Stronghold concept of defense, 6–7
Stuart, Jeb, 172, 191, 192
Subic Bay, 289
Submarines, 240, 247, 292, 341, 343, 352, 364, 407, 609
in American Revolution, 73–74
in Civil War, 199
nuclear, 448, 476, 483–84, 500, 567, 573, 579
technological advances in, 290–91, 352
in World War I, 304, 305, 310, 318–22
in World War II, 371, 373, 391–96, 401, 427–30
Substitution, 8, 51, 53, 184, 186, 188, 189, 206
Success Offensive, 539, 540–42
Sudan, 628, 631, 650
Suez Canal, 493
Sullivan, John, 71
Summer military training camps, 306–307
Sumner, Edwin V., 175, 178
Sumter, Thomas, 68
Sunni Awakening, 668–70
Sunnis, 581, 624, 625, 627, 654, 660, 661, 662, 663–69
Sunni Triangle, 664–65, 667
Supreme Court, U.S., 97n., 229, 647
Surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), 521
Susquehannock Indians, 18, 23, 24
Swords, 3, 4
Symington, Stuart, 449, 482, 497
Syria, 477, 494, 581, 585, 586, 628, 650, 672
Tactical Air Command, 494, 503
Tactical nuclear weapons, 490–91, 502
Taft, William Howard, 277, 279, 286, 287, 296, 302
Taft Commission, 277, 278
Taiwan, 443, 456, 474, 492, 575
Tajikistan, 625
Taliban, 624–26, 630, 631, 638–50, 672–78
Talladega, Battle of, 104
Tallushatchee, Battle of, 104
Tank Corps, 358–59
Tankers, 388, 393–95, 429, 430, 457
Tanks, 317, 358–60, 388, 390, 422, 426, 556, 574, 656
Tarawa, 417, 419
Tarleton, Banastre, 67, 68
Task Force Dagger, 640–45
Task Force 58, 418
Task Force Ranger, 615
Taylor, Henry C., 287–88
Taylor, Maxwell D., 487, 491, 496, 497, 504
Taylor, Zachary, 129, 130, 131–33, 135–39, 162
Technological innovations, 108, 113–17, 163, 220, 224, 558, 574, 580, 612, 623, 624, 634, 635
Cold War, 482–84, 489, 495, 519
colonial, 3–4, 11, 13, 31, 41–42, 73–74
in early twentieth century, 283, 286–92, 297–300
in 1880s, 236–41, 242, 247
in Gulf War, 599–600
interwar, 346, 352, 354, 355–63
nineteenth century, 113–17
steamships, 114–17, 198–99, 220–21
in World War I, 317
in World War II, 389–91, 395, 425, 430
See also Nuclear weapons; Submarines
Tecumseh, 95, 96, 99, 101, 106
Teheran conference, 367–68, 405
Telegraph, 113, 115, 237, 298
Telephone, 298
Teller, Edward, 447, 464
Teller Amendment, 254, 271, 273
Tenet, George, 630, 636, 639, 651
X Corps, 459, 460
Tennessee River, 149, 151, 159, 165, 166, 167, 194
Tentative Manual for Landing Operations, 354
10th Army, 437
10th Fleet, 394
Tenure of Office Act (1867), 230
Territorial expansion, 108, 121–29, 141
Territorial Forces, 549–50
Terrorism, 276, 571, 582, 585, 588, 627–32, 633, 650–52, 672, 673–79, 686
global war on, 673–79
Islamic, 627–32, 633, 636–52, 663–65, 672–79
9/11 attacks, 633, 637–39, 650, 651, 672, 673
Terry, Alfred H., 226, 227
Tet offensive, 539–43
Texas Rangers, 138
Texas revolution, 128–29
TFX fighter, 498
Thailand, 528
Thames, Battle of the, 101
Thanh, Nguyen Chi, 513
Thatcher, Margaret, 579
Thayer, Sylvanus, 117, 119, 122
Thermonuclear bomb, 464
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 537–38, 548, 550, 551, 554, 562–65
3d Division, 331
3d Fleet, 416, 418, 419, 434
3d Infantry Division, 659
3d Louisiana Native Guards, 182
Third Seminole War, 128
3d U.S. Army, 423, 425, 434, 436, 603
Thirty Years War, 12
Thomas, George H., 162, 196, 197, 213
Thomas, Lorenzo, 183
Thompson, Hugh C., Jr., 559
Thor missile, 483
332nd Fighter Group (Red Tails), 384
Tidewater Wars, 13–15, 18
Tinian, 406, 418
Tippecanoe, Battle of, 95
Titan missile, 483
Tito, Marshal, 442, 616, 617
Tobacco, 203
Tomahawk cruise missile, 600, 630
Tonkawa Indians, 225
Tonnage ceilings, 342, 350, 351
Toombs, Robert, 162
Tora Bora, 645, 646, 648
Toral, Jose, 266
TORCH, 397, 410
Torpedoes, 199, 240, 247, 290, 291, 352, 393, 399, 428–30
Torrijos, Omar, 592
Torture, 647, 665
Total Force program, 598
Totopotomy Creek, 209
Tourgee, Albion W., 228
Tower, John, 570
Tracy, Benjamin R., 239, 247
Trafalgar, Battle of, 94
Trainbands, 4, 6, 7, 8
Transportation, 96, 108, 114–17, 122–23, 135, 221, 247, 259
in American Revolution, 57
in Civil War, 144–53, 156, 175, 179, 192, 195, 197–200, 202–204
colonial, 42
motorization, 298
in World War I, 317, 325–28
Transportation Command, 609
Transportation Plan, 421
Transportation Security Agency, 639
Trenchard, Sir Hugh, 348
Trenton, 62, 69
Trident missile, 573
Tri-Partite Pact (1940), 368
Tripolitan War, 93–94, 99
Trist, Nicholas E., 141
Truman, Harry S., 437, 441–44, 478, 488, 510–11
defense reorganization, 448–53
Korean War and, 453, 455–60, 467–74
nuclear weapons and, 437–39, 441, 443–47, 453, 462, 464, 465
rearmament policy, 460–67
Truman Doctrine, 443
Tunisian campaign, 399, 401–402
Tupelo, 177
Turkey, 442–43, 466, 595
Turkmenistan, 625
Turner, William, 17
Turtle, 73–74
Tuscarora Indians, 19, 23n., 71
Tuscarora War, 19
Tuskegee Institute, 384
12th U.S. Army Group, 423
20th Air Force, 431
XX Bomber Command, 430, 431
XXI Bomber Command, 431, 432, 439
21st British Army Group, 423–26, 436
24th Infantry Division, 596–97, 600
25th
Infantry Division, 533
Tyler, John, 128
U–2 plane, 481, 486, 505, 506
ULTRA, 391, 395, 399, 429
Uncertain Trumpet, The (Taylor), 496
Underhill, John, 10, 13, 15
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 451, 452
Uniform Militia Act (1792), 83–84, 92, 121
Union Army. See Civil War
Union League, 230, 231
UNITAF, 613–15
United Nations, 441, 444, 454, 486, 594, 604, 607, 609, 613–15, 630, 674
in Balkans, 619–23
Iraq and, 625–26, 651–53, 661–62
in Korean War, 454, 456, 457–60, 467–74
in Somalia, 613–16
United States (carrier), 448, 450
United States (frigate), 95n., 100
United States Information Agency, 504
United States Naval Institute, 245
U.S. troops stationed abroad, 685
Universal military service and training, 83–84, 463–64
Universal Military Training and Service Act (1951), 463–64
UNMOVIC, 627, 654
UNOSOM, 613–16
UNOSOM II, 613–16
UNPROFOR, 619–22
UNSCOM, 626, 627, 636, 651, 661, 662
Upham, Jabez, 121
Upton, Emory, 242, 243–48, 250, 344
USAAF (U.S. Army Air Forces), 372, 380, 384, 394, 397, 399, 408, 409–415, 416–18, 431, 434, 439, 462
USAMGIK, 454
“Utah” beach, 421
Ute Indians, 128, 225, 226
Utrecht, Treaty of (1713), 30, 31
Uzbekistan, 625, 631, 640
Valcour Island, Battle of, 62
Valley Forge, 64–65, 67
Van Buren, Martin, 131
Vance, Cyrus, 497, 572, 612
Vance, Zebulon B., 147, 188
Vandenberg, Hoyt S., 450
Van Dorn, Earl, 165, 166, 167, 176, 177, 179
Van Fleet, James, 468, 469
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 99
Vaux, 331
Venezuela, 494
Veracruz, 137–40, 302
Vernon, Edward, 32–33
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 338, 339, 341, 355
Vichy France, 378, 396, 399, 401, 403
Vicksburg, 145, 168, 169, 176, 178, 179, 190, 192, 194–97
Victory Program plan, 372, 386
Viet Cong (VC), 513, 514, 517, 518, 524, 528–36, 539–66
Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI), 523
Viet Minh, 492–93, 511–13, 556
Vietnam War, 474, 477, 507–536, 537–68, 570, 599, 611
advisory years, 514–17
antiwar movement, 537–39, 544, 546–48, 553, 560–61, 568
attrition strategy, 529
blacks in, 526–27, 561
bombing campaigns, 517–22, 530–34, 539–43, 551–59, 563
casualties, 509, 521, 527, 528, 530–33, 537, 541–47, 554, 563, 566, 682
COMMANDO HUNT, 517, 553–56
desertion, 543, 549, 561, 564
Diem regime, 512–15
draft, 525–27, 549, 568
DUCK HOOK, 545–46, 557
Easter Offensive, 551, 556–59, 562
escalation, 511–17, 522–27
GAME WARDEN, 535
General Offensive-General Uprising, 540, 565
ground war, initiation of, 522–34
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 478, 516–17, 537, 553
intelligence, 516, 523, 529, 532, 538, 540
“limited war” strategy, 524, 540, 543
LINEBACKER I, 557–58, 562, 563
LINEBACKER II, 563–64
logistical support, 518–25, 557
map of, 508
MARKET TIME, 534–35, 554
MENU, 552–53
mobilization, 524–27, 542
My Lai massacre, 559–60
naval war, 534–36, 557
of 1961–1967, 507–536
of 1968–1975, 537–68
“one war” approach, 546–47
operations, 516–22, 524, 534–35, 545–46, 551–59
pacification, 514, 535–36, 545, 546, 548, 550–51, 553, 557, 559, 565
peace talks, 548, 562–64
PHOENIX, 551
prisoners of war, 557, 564
ROLLING THUNDER, 517–22, 530, 557–58
Tet offensive, 539–43
troop withdrawals, 547–48, 553, 558, 560, 562
U.S. troop distress, 559–62
Vietnamization, 543–48, 548–59, 565
war zones, 510, 516, 530
weather and terrain issues, 510, 521, 530
Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, 560
Villa, Pancho, 302–303
Vincennes, 70
Vincennes, 587–88
Vincent, John, 101
Vinson, Carl, 355, 363, 364
Vinson-Trammell Act, 364
Virginia Capes, Battle of the, 70
Virgin Islands, 284, 289
Virginius crisis, 219, 238
VISTA, 465
Vladivostok Accords (1974), 567, 572
Volunteers, 5–6, 8, 9, 10, 17–19, 32–34, 40, 46, 85, 86, 90, 92, 121, 133–34, 138, 154–56, 157, 184–88, 218, 221, 243, 257–59, 274, 295–96, 306, 344, 429, 525–26, 568
“V” rocket bombs, 421
Wabash River, 85–86
Wagon transportation, 145, 147
Wainwright, Jonathan, 376
Wake Island, 269, 271, 375
Walker, Sir Hovenden, 29–30, 33, 41, 42
Walker, Walton H., 357
Wallace, Lew, 167
Walla Walla Indians, 128
Wampanoag Indians, 16, 17, 18
Wanghia, Treaty of (1844), 124
War, Department of, 83, 90, 111–13, 121, 122, 127, 133, 134, 154, 183, 185, 196, 202, 204, 209, 223, 228, 233, 247, 256–59, 269–71, 285, 292–95, 306, 313, 316, 324, 344, 349, 355–58, 386, 426, 447–49, 683, 684
War, Secretary of, 83, 111, 112, 249–50, 293
War Hawks, 95
War Industries Board (WIB), 316, 317, 320, 324, 327, 357
War Manpower Commission, 385
Warner, John, 570, 611
War of 1812, 95–107, 108, 110, 112, 119–22, 130, 133, 275
battles of, 99–107
beginning of, 95, 99
blockade, 100, 101
casualties, 106, 681
logistical support, 96
Native Americans in, 96, 99, 101, 104–106
navy in, 95, 96, 99–101, 103
officers, 99, 101–105
theaters of, 97–99
Treaty of Ghent, 106, 107
War of Jenkins’ Ear, 32
War of the Austrian Succession, 32
War Policies Commission, 357
War Powers Act (1973), 568
War Production Board (WPB), 388, 389
War Resources Administration, 357
Warsaw Pact, 496, 570, 580, 586, 590, 608, 618
War Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation, 319
War Trade Board, 317
Washington, 103, 107, 112, 149, 155, 157, 169, 170, 171, 201, 211
Washington, George, 5, 35, 81, 85–89, 92, 133, 162, 207
in American Revolution, 48–55, 58–76
in colonial wars, 35
Newburgh Conspiracy and, 78
on peacetime army, 78–80, 83, 84, 87
Society of the Cincinnati and, 78–79
Whiskey Rebellion, 87
Washington Conference (1921–1922), 341, 342, 348
Washington Conference (1941–1942), 378–79
Washington Navy Yard, 241
Watergate scandal, 565, 568
Watervliet Arsenal, 241
Waxhaws, 67
Wayne, Anthony, 86, 101
Weapons. See Technological innovations
Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), 594–95, 596, 604, 610–11, 626–27, 630, 634, 636, 638, 65
0–55, 661, 662, 663, 671, 680
Weinberger, Caspar, 576, 584, 589
Welles, Gideon, 164, 197–200
Wellington, Duke of, 102, 106, 139, 140
Wentworth, Thomas, 32
West, post–Civil War, 221–28
Westmoreland, William C., 516, 519–25, 528–36, 539–42, 546, 560
West Point, 67, 92–93, 117–20, 122, 126, 134, 142, 162, 242, 243, 328
Westward movement, 45, 87, 94, 108, 121–26, 128–29, 141, 225
Weyler, Valeriano, 252
Wheeler, Earle, 520, 522, 541, 542
Wheeler, Joseph, 263
Whiskey Rebellion, 86–87, 94
White League, 232
White Plains, Battle of, 61
Whitney, Earle, 115
Wickes, Lambert, 73
Wilderness, Battle of the, 209–210, 215, 243, 337
Williams, Roger, 10
Wilkinson, James, 101, 102
Wilmington, 69
Wilson, Charles E., 485
Wilson, Woodrow, 286, 287, 294, 302, 303, 341, 365
Fourteen Points, 311–12, 323, 339
in World War I, 304–317, 319, 321–25, 331, 338, 339
Wilson’s Creek, Battle of, 157
Winder, William H., 103
Winslow, Josiah, 16–17
Wohlstetter, Albert J., 487
Wolfe, James, 38, 39, 43
Wolfowitz, Paul, 635, 636
Women, 568
in Civil War, 186, 187 and n.
in Gulf War, 601
integration into armed forces, 451
in World War I, 324
in World War II, 382, 383
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), 383
Women’s Armed Services Integration Act (1948), 451
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), 383
Wood, Leonard, 257, 271, 275, 294, 303, 305–308
Wool, John E., 137
Woolsey, James, 636
World Trade Center bombing (1993), 629, 636
World Trade Center bombing (2001), 633, 637–39, 650, 651, 672, 673
World War I, 286, 291, 293, 294, 298, 304–308, 309–338, 340, 341, 351, 356, 359, 386, 387, 421, 473
Aisne-Marne counteroffensive, 334
anti-German feelings, 310, 323
armistice, 336, 337
aviation in, 317, 321–22, 331–33, 346
black troops in, 329
blockade, 310
casualties, 75n., 216, 311, 330, 335–38, 681
disease, 328, 337
draft, 312–14, 320, 324–25
economic mobilization, 307, 310, 314–18, 323–25, 345
intelligence, 323
logistical support, 315, 316, 324, 325, 328, 331, 335–36
Lusitania incident, 304, 310
map of Western Front, 332
Meuse-Argonne offensive, 334–38
mobilization, 304–308, 312–18, 320, 322–30, 338
officers in, 320, 324, 327–28
Preparedness Movement, 304–308
St. Mihiel offensive, 334–35
shipping-amalgamation controversy, 325–28
submarines in, 304, 305, 310, 318–22
tactics, 323, 329–30, 333, 336–37
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