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The American Military - A Narrative History

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by Brad D. Lookingbill


  All-Volunteer Force (AVF)

  Allen, Ethan

  Alliance, Treaty of

  Allied Force (Operation)

  Allied Powers (Triple Entente)

  Almond, Edward

  Ambrister, Robert

  American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

  American Legion

  American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy

  American Revolution

  Amherst, Jeffrey

  Amity and Commerce, Treaty of

  amphibious landings, see landing operations doctrine

  Ampudia, Pedro de

  Anaconda (Operation)

  Anaconda Plan

  Anbar Awakening

  Anderson, Robert

  Andersonville prison

  André, John

  Andrew Doria

  Andrews Sisters

  Annapolis, see Naval Academy

  Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

  Anti-Comintern Pact

  anti-draft movement

  Antietam, Battle of

  Anvil (Operation)

  Anzio, Battle of

  Ap Bac, Battle of

  Apache Indians

  Apache Snow (Operation)

  Appomattox surrender

  Arab Spring

  Arapaho Indians

  Arbuthnot, Alexander

  Arikara Indians

  Arista, Mariano

  Aristide, Jean Bertrand

  Arlington National Cemetery

  Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test (ASVAB)

  Armijo, Manuel

  Armistead, George

  Armistead, Lewis

  Armistice Day

  Armstrong, John

  Army (establishment)

  Army aviation

  Army Industrial College

  Army Medical Museum

  Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

  Army Reserve (formation)

  Army of the United Colonies

  Army War College

  Arnold, Benedict

  Arnold, H. H. (Hap)

  Articles of Confederation

  Artillery School of Practice

  Aspin, Les

  Assize of Arms

  Atkinson, Henry

  Atlanta campaign

  Atlantic, Battle of the

  Atlantic Charter

  atomic weaponry

  Attleboro (Operation)

  Attlee, Clement

  Attucks, Crispus

  Avalanche (Operation)

  Axelson, Matthew

  Axis Powers

  Aztec Club

  Bacon, Josiah

  Bacon, Lydia

  Bacon, Nathaniel

  Bainbridge, William

  Baker, James

  Baker, Newton

  Ballou, Sullivan

  Bancroft, George

  Banks, Nathaniel

  banzai

  Barbarossa (Operation)

  Barbary piracy

  Barbour Board

  Barclay, Robert

  Barney, Joshua

  Barnwell, John

  Baron, George

  Barreaut, Michel

  Barron, James

  Barron, Samuel

  Barton, Clara

  Baruch, Bernard

  Bascom, George

  “Base Force” concept

  Bataan, Battle of

  Bathurst, Henry

  Baum, Friedrich

  Bay of Pigs invasion

  Beale, Edward

  Bear Flag revolt

  Beauregard, Pierre G. T.

  Bee, Barnard

  Beecher Island, Battle of

  Beirut bombing

  Belknap, William

  Belleau Wood, Battle of

  Bennington, Battle of

  Benson, William

  Bent, Charles

  Benteen, Frederick

  Benton, Jessie

  Benton, Thomas Hart

  Berkeley, William

  Berlin airlift

  Berlin crisis

  Bernard, Simon

  Biddle, William

  Big Foot

  Big Hole, Battle of the

  Big Switch (Operation)

  Bill of Rights

  Bin Laden, Osama

  Bismarck Sea, Battle of the

  Black Hawk

  Black Kettle

  Bladensburg, Battle of

  Blanco, Ramón

  Bliss, Tasker

  blitzkrieg

  Bloody Ridge, Battle of

  Bloody Run, Battle of

  Blount, Willie

  Bockscar

  Bonaparte, Napoleon

  Bonhomme Richard

  Bonn Agreement

  Bonus March

  Boomer, Walter

  Bosnian War, see Yugoslav wars

  Boston Massacre

  Boston Tea Party

  Bouquet, Henry

  Bowlegs, Billy

  Boxer Rebellion

  Boyd, John

  bracero

  Braddock, Edward

  Bradford, James C.

  Bradley, Omar

  Bradstreet, John

  Bragg, Braxton

  Brandywine, Battle of

  Brant, Joseph

  Brazito, Battle of

  Breger, Dave

  Bremer, L. Paul

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Briand, Aristide

  brinkmanship

  Britain, Battle of

  Brock, Isaac

  Broke, Philip

  Brown, Jacob

  Brown, Jacob J.

  Brown, John

  Brown, Noah

  Browning, John

  Buchanan, James

  Buchenwald

  Buckner, Simon

  Budd, George

  Buell, Don Carlos

  Buena Vista, Battle of

  buffalo hunting

  Buffalo Soldiers

  Buford, John

  Bulge, Battle of the

  Bull Run, Battle of (First)

  Bull Run, Battle of (Second)

  Bullard, Robert

  Bunau-Varilla, Philippe

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Bundy, Omar

  Bunker Hill, Battle of (Breed's Hill)

  Bureau of Aeronautics

  Bureau of Indian Affairs, see Indian Office

  Burgoyne, Johnny

  Burma Road

  Burnside, Ambrose

  Burnt Corn, Battle of

  Burr, Aaron

  Burr Conspiracy

  Bush Doctrine

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  Bush, Vannevar

  bushido

  Bushnell, David

  Butler, Benjamin

  Butler, Smedley

  Butts, Edmund

  Cabot

  Cahuenga, Treaty of

  Calhoun, John C.

  Calley, William

  Calling Forth Act

  Cambodian incursion

  Camden, Battle of

  Cameron, George

  camp followers

  Camp Grant massacre

  Campbell, William

  Canby, Edward

  Cantigny, Battle of

  Capra, Frank

  Captain Jack (Kintpuash)

  Carleton, Guy

  Carleton, James

  Carlisle, Earl of

  Carlisle Indian School

  Carney, William

  Carolina

  Carr, Eugene

  Carranza, Venustiano

  Carrington, Henry

  Carson, Christopher (Kit)

  Carter, Earl

  Carter, Jimmy

  Cartwheel (Operation)

  Casey, George, Jr.

  Cass, Lewis

  Castro, Fidel

  Castro, José

  Caswell, Richard

  Cedar Falls (Operation)

  Centennial campaign

  Central Command (CENTCOM)

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  C
entral Office for South Vietnam (COSVN)

  Central Powers (Triple Alliance)

  Cerro Gordo, Battle of

  Cervera, Pascual

  Chaffee, Adna

  Chaffee, Adna, Jr.

  Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence

  Chancellorsville, Battle of

  Chapultepec, Battle of

  Charming Peggy

  Château-Thierry, Battle of

  Châteauguay, Battle of

  Chattanooga, Battle of

  Chauncey, Isaac

  Chemical Warfare Service

  Cheney, Dick

  Chennault, Claire

  Cherokee Indians

  Chevalier, Godfrey de Courcelles

  Cheyenne Indians

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Chickahominy Indians

  Chickamauga, Battle of

  Chickasaw Bluffs, Battle of

  Chickasaw Indians

  Chicken, George

  Chief Joseph

  China Relief Expedition

  Chippawa, Battle of

  Chippewa Indians

  Chipyong-ni, Battle of

  Chivington, John

  Choctaw Indians

  Chongchon River, Battle of the

  Chosin Reservoir, Battle of the

  Chromite (Operation)

  Chrysler's Farm, Battle of

  Church, Benjamin

  Churchill, Winston

  Churubusco, Battle of

  Cibecue, Battle of

  Citadel

  Citizen's Military Training Camp (CMTC)

  Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)

  Civil War

  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

  Civilian Irregular Defense Group

  Cixi, Empress Dowager

  Clark, George Rogers

  Clark, Mark

  Clark, Ransom

  Clark, Wesley

  Clark, William

  Clausewitz, Karl von

  Clay, Green

  Clay, Henry

  Clay, Lucias

  Clayton–Bulwer Treaty

  Clemenceau, Georges

  Cleveland, Grover

  Clifford, Clark

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, Henry

  Clinton, Hillary

  Clinton, James

  Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

  Coast Guard

  coastal defenses

  Cobra (Operation)

  Cobra II

  Cochran, Jacqueline

  Cochrane, Alexander

  Cockburn, George

  code talkers

  Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

  Coffee, John

  Cohan, George

  Cohen, Eliot

  Cold Harbor, Battle of

  Cold War

  Collins, Henry

  Collins, J. Lawton

  Coloradas, Mangus

  Colt, Samuel

  Columbus

  Comanche Indians

  combat loading

  Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS)

  Command of the Army Act

  Command and General Staff College

  Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services

  Committee on Public Information (CPI)

  Complete Victory (Operation)

  Compromise of 1850

  Compromise of 1877

  Concord, Battle of

  Condé, García

  Confederate States of America

  Confiscation Acts

  Conger, Edwin

  Conner, David

  Conquering Bear

  conscription

  Constitution (establishment)

  containment strategy

  Continental Army

  Continental Army plan

  Continental Congress

  Continental Navy

  continentalism

  Contreras, Battle of

  convoy system

  Conway, Thomas

  Conyngham, Gustavus

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cooper, James Fenimore

  Cooper–Church Amendment

  Coral Sea, Battle of the

  Corinth, Battle of

  Cornwallis, Charles

  Coronet (Operation)

  Corps of Discovery

  Council of National Defense

  counterinsurgency operations (COIN)

  counting coup

  Cowpens, Battle of

  Craig, James

  Crater, Battle of the

  Crawford, Emmet

  Crazy Horse

  Creek Indians, see Muskogee Indians

  Creel, George

  Crockett, Davy

  Croghan, George

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cromwell, Samuel

  Cronkite, Walter

  Crook, George

  Crosby, Bing

  Crow Indians

  Crowder, Enoch

  cryptography

  C.S.S. Alabama

  C.S.S. Merrimack

  Cuba Libre

  Cuban invasion

  Cuban missile crisis

  Curtis, Samuel

  Custer, George Armstrong

  Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)

  D-Day

  Da Nang landing

  Dacres, James

  Dade, Francis

  Dade Massacre

  Dak To, Battle of

  Dale, Richard

  Daly, Dan

  Dancing Rabbit Creek, Treaty of

  Daniels, Josephus

  dau tranh

  Davis, Britton

  Davis, Jefferson

  Dawes Act

  Dayton Peace Accords

  Dean, William

  Deane, Silas

  Dearborn, Henry

  Decatur, Stephen

  Declaration of Independence

  decolonization

  Defense Appropriations Act

  Defense Department (DOD)

  DeKalb, Johann

  Delano, Columbus

  Delaware Indians

  Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

  Denfield, Louis

  DePuy, William

  Derne, Battle of

  Desert Fox (Operation)

  Desert Shield (Operation)

  Desert Storm (Operation)

  d'Estaing, Comte

  destroyers-for-bases deal

  Detachment (Operation)

  Detainee Treatment Act

  détente

  deterrence

  Dewey, George

  DeWitt, John

  Dick, Charles

  Dickerson, Mahlon

  Dickman, Joseph

  Dickson, Robert

  Dietz, Danny

  Dilworth, Rankin

  Dinwiddie, Robert

  disarmament

  Distant Early Warning (DEW)

  Dix, Dorothea

  Doaksville, Treaty of

  Dodge, Grenville

  Dodge, Henry

  Doeg Indians

  dog tags

  Dominican intervention

  domino theory

  Doniphan, Alexander

  “Don't ask, Don't tell” policy

  Doolittle, James

  Dos Passos, John

  Douglass, Frederick

  Douhet, Giulio

  Downes, John

  Downfall (Operation)

  Downie, George

  draft, see conscription

  Dragoon (Operation)

  Dresden bombing

  drones

  Dropshot (Operation)

  drug abuse

  Drum, Hugh

  Dulles, John Foster

  Dunmore, Earl of (John Murray)

  Duong Van Minh

  Eagle Claw (Operation)

  Early, Bernard

  Early, Jubal

  Easter Offensive

  Eaton, William

  Edwards, Clarence

  Eichelberger, Robert

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenho
wer, Dwight D.

  Eisenhower Doctrine

  El Caney, Battle of

  El Dorado Canyon (Operation)

  El Guettar, Battle of

  Eliot, John

  Elizabeth I, Queen

  Elliott, Jesse Duncan

  Ellis, Earl (Pete)

  Ely, Hanson

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Embargo Act

  Emergency Conservation Work Act

  Enduring Freedom (Operation)

  English Bill of Rights

  Enlightenment (European)

  Enola Gay

  Enrollment Act

  equal opportunity

  Ericsson, John

  Eslinger, Nicholas

  Espionage and Sedition Acts

  Ethiopian Regiment

  ethnic cleansing

  Eustis, William

  Eutaw Springs, Battle of

  Evans, Robley

  Ewell, Richard

  expansible force policy

  Fahd bin Abdul-Aziz, King

  Fahy, Charles

  Faith, Don

  Falaise Pocket, Battle of the

  Fallen Timbers, Battle of

  Fallujah, Battle of

  Farragut, David

  Federalist Papers

  Ferdinand, Franz

  Ferguson, Patrick

  Fermi, Enrico

  Fetterman, William

  feudalism

  filibusters

  Five-Power Treaty

  Flagg, James Montgomery

  Fleet Marine Force (FMF)

  Fletcher, Frank

  flexible response

  Flipper, Henry

  Floyd, John

  Foch, Ferdinand

  Foote, Andrew

  Forbes, John

  Ford, Gerald

  Ford, Henry

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford

  Forrestal, James

  Forsyth, George

  Forsyth, James

  Fort Abraham Lincoln

  Fort Apache

  Fort Atkinson

  Fort Barrancas

  Fort Bowie

  Fort Bowyer

  Fort Bragg

  Fort Brooke

  Fort Buford

  Fort C. F. Smith

  Fort Carillon

  Fort Clatsop

  Fort Cobb

  Fort Cornwallis

  Fort Dearborn

  Fort Defiance

  Fort Detroit

  Fort Donelson

  Fort Duquesne

  Fort Edward

  Fort Ellis

  Fort Erie

  Fort Fetterman

  Fort Frontenac

  Fort Gadsden

  Fort George

  Fort Gibson

  Fort Granby

  Fort Greenville

  Fort Grierson

  Fort Harrison

  Fort Henry

  Fort Hood

  Fort Jackson

  Fort Jefferson

  Fort King

  Fort Klamath

  Fort Laramie

  Fort Laramie Treaty

  Fort Leavenworth

  Fort Lee (New Jersey)

  Fort Lee (Virginia)

  Fort Loudoun

  Fort Lyon

  Fort Mackinac

  Fort Madison

  Fort Malden

  Fort Mandan

  Fort Marcy

  Fort Marion

  Fort McHenry

  Fort Meigs

  Fort Mercer

  Fort Miamis

  Fort Mifflin

  Fort Mims

  Fort Monroe

  Fort Montgomery

  Fort Motte

  Fort Mystic

  Fort Nassau (settlement)

  Fort Necessity

  Fort Nelson

  Fort Niagara

  Fort Ninety-Six

  Fort Phil Kearny

  Fort Pickens

  Fort Pitt

 

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