U.S. Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007 The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany’s blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved into a persistent counterinsurgency conflict reminiscent of the long...
U.S. Army Order of Battle 1919–1941
U.S. Army Order of Battle 1919–1941 Many historians consider the advent of Elihu Root as President William McKinley’s Secretary of War in 1899 the beginning of the modern United States (US) Army. A remarkable man who never served a day in uniform, Root was responsible for a series of legislative bills passed through Congress between 1900 and 1903 that led to...