History of The U.S. Military

History of The U.S. Military

The history of the United States military is a very prestige, brave, heroic, and memorable one at that. Starting on September 3, 1793 the United States was officially it’s own nation and it’s own military. At that time many other countries didn’t believe that we would succeed but, now we are one of the strongest, freest, and most prestige country to possible ever be developed.

The technology that we had started off with just a simple musket that shot one bullet at an time and need to be reloaded after that. It also had a sharp sheer type of knife on the end for close or hand to hand combat. All the way to the most destructive weapon ever developed by the United States, the atom bomb. The only time that atom bombs were dropped on civilian areas were Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The one dropped oh Hiroshima was named Little Man and, the one dropped on Nagasaki was named Fat Boy. The official death tool well never be none but the estimate is over 90,000-140,000 dead in Hiroshima alone. That is not including the people that died from the radiation after the dropping(www.atombomb.org.uk). This is the act that had ended world war II after Japan had surrendered on the USS Missouri(History of The U.S. Army). Although it is the most powerful weapon doesn’t mean it is the most useful. Sometimes “The bigger the boom the harder it hurts the thrower.” as well put but Harry Truman who had initiated the dropping with out knowing what they even are.

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The development of the atom bomb was done in a government secret called the Manhattan Project. This project was the thinking of Albert Einstein who believed that if you get a research team together they could create a nuclear weapon. He had sent a letter in 1939 to Franklin Roosevelt that said he could do this project. Three years later a physicist from Chicago, Enrico Fermi, had created a method to control a nuclear reaction. He had done t...

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...burden to the French citizens. After the Ho Chi Minh victory over the French, the United States took this as a threat of communism taking over the rest of Asia. At the Geneva convention the United States attempted to lessen the communist influence in Vietnam but, this attempt was unsuccessful.

So the United Sates was given no other option but to greaten the U.S. influence in Vietnam. Although the U.S. had the more technology to use, the people of Vietnam had the upper hand at times. By the use of guerilla tactics, they had the ability to out maneuver the United States troops. These tactics made the United States rely on air attacks. By the pressure of the American citizens, President Nixon was forced to withdraw his troops from Vietnam. Then just 6 years later Northern Vietnam had completely taken over Vietnam (http//members.aol.com/snniper43/Vietnam.html).

Although that the United States leaders have made bad decisions it has always turned out for the better. That shows that when it some to freedom, military, rights, and the government sticking up for the average citizens, that the United States of America is number one.