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The United States Armed Forces[5] are the federal military forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.[6] The President of the United States is the military's overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out. From the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of national unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force. It played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military. Not until the outbreak of World War II did a large standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold War's onset, created the modern U.S. military framework; the Act merged previously Cabinet-level Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (renamed the Department of Defense in 1949), headed by the Secretary of Defense; and created the Department of the Air Force and National Security Council. The U.S. military is the largest military in the world in terms of number of personnel. It draws its manpower from a large pool of paid volunteers; although conscription has been used in the past in various times of both war and peace, it has not been used since 1972. As of 2016, the United States spends about $580.3 billion annually to fund its military forces and Overseas Contingency Operations.[4] Put together, the United States constitutes roughly 39 percent of the world's military expenditures. For the period 2010–14, SIPRI found that the United States was the world's largest exporter of major arms, accounting for 31 per cent of global shares. The United States was also the world's eighth largest importer of major weapons for the same period.[7] The U.S. Armed Forces has significant capabilities in both defense and power projection due to its large budget, resulting in advanced and powerful equipment, and its widespread deployment of force around the world, including about 800 military bases in foreign locations.[8] History[edit] Main article: Military history of the United States The history of the U.S. military dates to 1775, even before the Declaration of Independence marked the establishment of the United States. The Continental Army, Continental Navy, and Continental Marines were created in close succession by the Second Continental Congress in order to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War. These forces demobilized in 1784 after the Treaty of Paris ended the War for Independence. The Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, and the United States Congress created the United States Navy on 27 March 1794, and the United States Marine Corps on 11 July 1798. All three services trace their origins to the founding of the Continental Army (on 14 June 1775), the Continental Navy (on 13 October 1775) and the Continental Marines (on 10 November 1775), respectively. The 1787 adoption of the Constitution gave the Congress the power to "raise and support armies", "provide and maintain a navy", and to "make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces", as well as the power to declare war. The United States President is the U.S. military's commander-in-chief. Rising tensions at various times with Britain and France and the ensuing Quasi-War and War of 1812 quickened the development of the U.S. Navy (established 13 October 1775) and the United States Marine Corps (established 10 November 1775). The U.S. Coast Guard dates its origin to the founding of the Revenue Cutter Service on 4 August 1790; that service merged with the United States Life-Saving Service in 1915 to establish the Coast Guard. The United States Air Force was established as an independent service on 18 September 1947; it traces its origin to the formation of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps in 1907 and was part of the Army before becoming an independent service.
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here in the USA we pray for peace on Sunday and prepare for war on Monday
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As a Veteran of the Gulf War, be advised that the Navy is strong and can take care of it self. US NAVY RULES!
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something wrong
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These manmade islands are a joke
A couple torpedoes and they'd sink.
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Talk abut very obvious propaganda. "China only wants to protect its shipping from the us monopoly". Yea right. What does protecting shipping lanes have to do with attacking fishing boats in OTHER COUNTRIES WATERS? China claims those waters are theirs even though its hundreds of miles away from china, and less than 2 miles from another country. No, its not about preventing other countries from monopolizing sea lanes, but about monopolizing them for China.
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cant wait when trump gets into office china is gonna get fucked
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I think WWIII will happen in the near future
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instead of talkling China militarily US should start tackling China economically. They are themselves allowing cheap chinese goods to be sold and their people bring those goods home. The easiest way to tackle china is to finish them economically by not buying chinese cheaper goods as they are dumping cheap goods/products like steel, tyres in world market and creating problems for all. Why not impose heavy import duty on all Chinese items and make them impossible to sell and thereby teaching them a lesson. China is economically more vulnerable than militarily and this way is very safe also.
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Actually the south China sea has belonged to China from ancient time, USA just want to prevent China from its interest in Asia.
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China is very Greedy and big thief. china did cyber attack on America
and stole defence security, weapon technology. China did attack on
India banks and stole cards info. and money. China occupied some Indian
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If world war 3 happens with out nuclear strikes U.S. canada and the rest of common wealth will absolutely demolish who ever we were against except Russia cause Russia will demolish us
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The problem w America isn't what she has.... It's what she hides and the ever churning DARPA. Let's not forget all top weapons dev are in America.
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This pretty much sums up how the US is afraid of what China might become if they let them expand however they want. Fucking Americans, thinking they can suppress everyone while they can expand their military. Freedom my ass. Now China is brutally expanding and what can the US do? Oh, simply do military drills isn't going to stop China's expansion. Unless if it's war but the US would be destroyed in the process:). Have fun watching the Chinese overtake the USA you disgusting yanks.
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I do like this. US army will destroy the whole china army in two hours !
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USA are just being assholes; they have no business in the south china sea, and yet all their doing it for is to keep Global Domination? Like wtf America.
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I still don't understand why China thinks sea of Philippine is their territory. :( It is not fair.
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As Puttin has openly asked and stated "he is tired of the ignorant american people, and just don't know how to get it to them to understand, the only reason war exists is for profit! You look back in every war US has engaged in was all for the profit. US's economy is solely base on war. Military weapon exports and spendings. Wake up people, stop these bullshits. Russia and China are not the ones provoking or making any confrontation. Stop listening to the big corporate puppets, to let your sons and daughters go die for nothing but their own financial gains!
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Less than 10% of you commenting understand a drop's worth about US - China relations. The 2 nations are, in essence, an economic conglomeration. War is insanely unlikely. The alleged military competition between the nations is showmanship. The Chinese recently "did something without asking D.C.'s permission" by trying to expand their effective air defense and military exclusion areas in the South China Sea. But truth be told, that isn't a loss for the USA. China is not an irrational actor. The US interest is in free navigation for commerce and being able to have our allies and US based multinationals have access to oil and mineral development. The South China Sea dispute will cool off with the Chinese being granted effective regional power status assuring them a stake (though not exclusive rights) in oil and mineral development in the South China Sea, the ability to militarily "own" that area of the seas in the same way the US militarily controls the Gulf of Mexico.
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