Military history of the United States

The Military history of the United States spans a period of less than two and a half centuries. Over the course of those years, the United States grew from an alliance of thirteen British colonies without a professional military, to Earth's sole military superpower as of 2005.

References

• Atlas of American Military History, Stuart Murray (2005) ISBN 0816055785
• American Military History: 1775-1902, Ed. Maurice Matloff (1996) ISBN 0938289705
• American Military History and the Evolution of Western Warfare, Robert Doughty (1996) ISBN 0669416835
• The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, Russell Frank Weigley (1977) ISBN 025328029X
• A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present, Ed. Jerry K. Sweeney and Kevin B. Byrne (1997) ISBN 0813328713
• The Oxford Companion to American Military History, Ed. John Whiteclay II Chambers, Fred Anderson, Lynn Eden, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Ronald H. Spector, and G. Kurt Piehler (2000) ISBN 0195071980