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Revision as of 01:01, 9 October 2014

Length of U.S. conventional forces participation in major wars

War Dates Duration Timeline
1. Vietnam War 1955/11 – 1973/01 [1] 17.2 years
(17 years, 3 months)
2. War in Afghanistan 2001/10 – 2014/12[2] 13.2 years
(13 years, 2 months)
3. Iraq War 2003/03 – 2011/12[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] 8.8 years
(8 years, 9 months)
4. American Revolutionary War 1775/04 – 1783/09 8.4 years
(8 years, 5 months)
5. American Civil War 1861/04 – 1865/04 4.0 years
6. World War II 1941/12 – 1945/08 3.7 years
(3 years, 8 months)
7. Korean War 1950/06 – 1953/07 3.1 years
(3 years 1 month)
8. War of 1812 1812/06 – 1814/12 2.5 years
(2 years, 6 months)
9. Mexican-American War 1846/05 – 1848/02 1.8 years
(1 year, 10 months)
10. World War I 1917/04 – 1918/11 1.6 years
(1 year, 7 months)
11. Spanish-American War 1898/05 – 1898/12 0.6 years
(8 months)
12. Persian Gulf War 1990/08 – 1991/02[10][11] 0.5 years
(7 months)
13. Kosovo War 1999/03 – 1999/06 0.3 years
(118 days)

(Ongoing wars indicated in bold and with orange bars.) Sources: Associated Press,[12] PBS[13]

Notes

  • Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution gives the United States Congress the power to declare War". Historically wars have been either declared as "Formal" wars or authorized as "Authorized military engagements".[14] In 1973 Congress further clarified their role in authorized armed conflict with the passing of the War Powers Resolution.[15]
  • The dates used by the Associated Press for official U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War are August 1964 (the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) to January 1973 (the Paris Peace Accords), although U.S. military activities and intervention in Vietnam spanned from 1950 to 1975.[16][17][18]
  • For the Philippine–American War, not included by the Associated Press in their tally above, official start and end dates used by some sources are June 2, 1899 – July 4, 1902, (three years and one month,) although resistance groups continued fighting until June 15, 1913.[19][20][21][22]
  • The start date used by the Associated Press for U.S. engagement in the Persian Gulf War is January 17, 1991 (the start of its extensive aerial bombing campaign under the offensive known as Operation Desert Storm.)[23] While the first US Combat Troops arrived in South Vietnam in 1965, by the end of 1964 over 23,000 American military personal were already present.[24]
  • U.S. President Barack Obama pledged in 2009 and 2010 that the U.S. war in Iraq would end by the end of 2011 when all remaining U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq. Then, in the Spring of 2011, Secretary of Defense Gates, went to Iraq, pleading with the government of Iraq, to let U.S. Forces remain past the 2011 deadline.[25][26][27][28][29][30]
  • The start date of March 24, 1999 is the date used by PBS Frontline as the beginning of the Kosovo air war. The ending date of June 20, 1999 is the date NATO's bombing campaign formally ended.[13] Although the war itself ended in 1999, some US forces took part in peacekeeping and associated duties thereafter.[31]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.vietnamwar50th.com/assets/1/7/Presidential-Proclamation_10x15_Email_Version.pdf
  2. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/afghan-war-now-longest-war-us-history/story?id=10849303
  3. ^ US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,452 Wednesday, according to Associated Press count
  4. ^ US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,452
  5. ^ Dan Simpson Why can't we stop our wars?
  6. ^ Robert Gates' Pentagon Legacy: Unfinished Wars, Unfinished Budget Reform
  7. ^ Obama May Face Tough Decision as Iraqi Leader Signals U.S. Troops Could Stay
  8. ^ Pentagon rethinks Iraq pull-out plans
  9. ^ Iraq Withdrawal Date For U.S. Troops May Be Pushed Back Beyond 2011
  10. ^ http://www.swords-to-plowshares.org/2012/08/03/our-longest-u-s-war-medical-treatments-for-gulf-war-illness-remain-elusive/
  11. ^ (33)The term “Persian Gulf War” means the period beginning on August 2, 1990, and ending on the date thereafter prescribed by Presidential proclamation or by law. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/101
  12. ^ U.S. Participation in Major Wars
  13. ^ a b PBS Frontline, A Kosovo Chronology
  14. ^ Declaration of war by the United States
  15. ^ War Powers Resolution
  16. ^ Herring, George C.: America's Longest War, p. 18.
  17. ^ Zinn, A People's History of the United States, p. 471.
  18. ^ Kolko, Gabriel Anatomy of War, pages 457, 461 ff., ISBN 1-898876-67-3
  19. ^ Delmendo 2004, p. 47.
  20. ^ Constantino 1975
  21. ^ Agoncillo 1990, p. 247
  22. ^ Iraq war is ending, with last troops out in 2011: Obama
  23. ^ 1991: 'Mother of all Battles' begins
  24. ^ [1]
  25. ^ Obama: Iraq war to end in 2011
  26. ^ Obama tells veterans that end of Iraq war is about to begin
  27. ^ Obama: 'The war is ending,' fulfilling campaign pledge
  28. ^ Obama Declares an End to Combat Mission in Iraq
  29. ^ US in Final Phase of Iraq War
  30. ^ Obama envoy secretly offered troops in Iraq after 2011
  31. ^ Kosovo Campaign Medal
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