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|[[File:Streamer RW.PNG|200px]] <br />[[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] <br />[[File:Streamer W1812.PNG|200px]] <br />[[War of 1812]] <br />[[File:Streamer MW.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Mexican–American War]] <br />[[File:Streamer CW.PNG|200px]] <br />[[American Civil War|Civil War]] <br />[[File:Streamer IW.PNG|200px]] <br />[[American Indian Wars|Indian Wars]] <br />[[File:Streamer SC.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Spanish–American War]] <br />[[File:Streamer CRE.PNG|200px]] <br />[[China Relief Expedition]] <br />[[File:Streamer PC.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Philippine–American War]] <br />[[File:Streamer MS.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Mexican Expedition]] <br />[[File:Streamer WWI V.PNG|200px]] <br />[[World War I]] <br />[[Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War|Russian Civil War]] <br />[[Bonus Army suppression]] <br />[[File:World War II - American Campaign Streamer (Plain).png|200px]] <br />[[File:Streamer APC.PNG|200px]] <br />[[File:European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal streamer.png|200px]] <br />[[World War II]] <br />[[File:Korean Service Medal - Streamer.png|200px]] <br />[[Korean War]] <br />[[1958 Lebanon crisis]] <br />[[File:Vietnam Service Streamer vector.svg|200px]] <br />Vietnam War <br />[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Dominican Civil War]] <br />[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969)|Korean DMZ Conflict]] <br />[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]] <br />[[US invasion of Grenada|Invasion of Grenada]] <br />[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]]|[[United States Invasion of Panama|Invasion of Panama]] <br />[[File:Streamer AFE.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Unified Task Force|Somali Civil War]] <br />[[File:Streamer SAS.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Gulf War|Persian Gulf War]] <br />[[File:Streamer KC.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Kosovo War]] <br />[[File:Streamer gwotE.PNG|200px]] <br />[[Global War on Terrorism]] <br />[[File:Streamer AFGCS.PNG|200px]] <br />[[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]] <br />[[File:Iraq Campaign streamer.svg|200px]] <br />[[Iraq War]] <br />[[File:Inherent Resolve Campaign streamer.svg|200px]] [[Operation Inherent Resolve]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://quicksearch.dla.mil/qsDocDetails.aspx?ident_number=70415 |title=ASSIST-QuickSearch Document Details |access-date=6 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207122448/http://quicksearch.dla.mil/qsDocDetails.aspx?ident_number=70415 |archive-date=7 February 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> <br />[[Battle of Khasham]]

The Vietnam War is often regarded as a low point for the U.S. Army due to the use of [[The Draft|drafted personnel]], the unpopularity of the war with the U.S. public and frustrating restrictions placed on the military by U.S. political leaders. While U.S. forces had been stationed in [[South Vietnam]] since 1959, in intelligence and advising/training roles, they were not deployed in large numbers until 1965, after the [[Gulf of Tonkin Incident]]. U.S. forces effectively established and maintained control of the "traditional" battlefield, but they struggled to counter the [[guerrilla war|guerrilla]] hit and run tactics of the communist [[National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam|Viet Cong]] and the [[People's Army of Vietnam|People's Army Of Vietnam (NVA)]].<ref>Woodruff, Mark. ''Unheralded Victory: The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the [[North Vietnamese Army]] 1961–1973'' (Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press, 1999).<!--page#?--></ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shidler|first=Derek|title=Vietnam's Changing Historiography: Ngo Dinh Diem and America's Leadership|url=https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Historia2009Shidler.pdf}}</ref>

In 1941, the "[[Army of the United States]]" was founded to fight World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.army.mil/article/139620/americas_entry_into_world_war_ii_remembered_73_years_later|title=America's entry into World War II remembered 73 years later|last=Vergun|first=David|date=December 9, 2014|website=United States Army|access-date=July 12, 2024}}</ref> The Regular Army, Army of the United States, the National Guard, and Officer/Enlisted Reserve Corps (ORC and ERC) existed simultaneously. After World War II, the ORC and ERC were combined into the [[United States Army Reserve]]. The Army of the United States was re-established for the [[Korean War]] and Vietnam War and was demobilized upon the suspension of the [[Conscription in the United States|draft]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/>