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Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries total of 93,238 buried and 78,979 missing and that "The World War II database on this web site contains the names of those buried at our cemeteries, or listed as Missing in Action, buried or lost at sea. It does not contain the names ...
Newly elected Obama administration has stopped using the phrase "war on terror"; [80] John Brennan announces that the U.S. is "at war with al Qaeda", not involved in a "global war on terror" [81] instead using the term OCO (Overseas Contingency Operations). [82] August 27
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [246] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [247] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll. [248]
The end of the war in Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks have led to widespread reflection on the impact of U.S. counterterrorism operations on Americans and the world. In ...
Departing from Boston's Logan International Airport, American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the World Trade Center's North Tower at 8:46 a.m. ET. United Airlines Flight 175, also departing ...
The war on terror, officially Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), [3] is a global military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks in 2001, and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. Some researchers and political scientists have argued that it replaced the Cold War. [4] [5]
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
Kern and Sutter massacres – White American settlers and U.S. Army personnel make a series of three attacks on local California Indians in an attempt to dissuade them from future raids. U.S. Army and White settlers 12 March 1847 Massacre 5 (possibly 1) "many more" Sutter County, California