United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the Federal military Forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Air Force. The United States have a strong tradition of civilian control of the military. The Governor-General of the United States is the military’s overall head, and, together with the Congress and the Federal Council, forms military policy with the U.S. Department of Emergency and Military Affairs (DEMA), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy at the Federal level is carried out. The Department is headed by the Secretary of Emergency and Military Affairs, who is a civilian and a member of the Federal Executive Council (the equivalent of a Cabinet or Government (executive) in other countries). The Emergency and Military Affairs Secretary is second in the military’s chain of command, just below the Governor-General, and serves as the principal Assistant to the Governor-General in all DEMA-related matters. Both the Governor-General and Secretary of Emergency and Military Affairs are advised by a four-member Joint Chiefs of Staff, which includes the head of each of the Emergency and Military Affairs Department’s service branches, namely the General and Chief of Staff of the United States Army, the Fleet Admiral and Chief of Staff of the United States Navy, the Commandant and Chief of Staff of the United States Marine Corps, and the General and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. Leadership is provided by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

All of the branches work together during operations and joint missions, under the Unified Combatant Commands, under the authority of the Secretary of Emergency and Military Affairs.

From the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of Federal unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military Force and to this day, the United States do not have a large standing Military, if one at all during Peacetime. The Federal Security Act of 1647, adopted following World War II and during the Cold War’s onset, created the modern U.S. military framework; the Act merged previously Cabinet-level Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the Federal Military Establishment (renamed the Department of Defense in 1658, and the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs in 1717), headed by the Secretary of Defense (renamed the Secretary of Emergency and Military Affairs in 1717); and created the Department of the Air Force and Federal Security Council.

The U.S. military, when the Federal military is counted together with the militia and militaries of the respective States, is one of the largest militaries in terms of number of personnel. It draws its manpower from a large pool of paid volunteers; although conscription has been used in the past in various times of both war and peace, it has not been used since 1562–5. As of 1717, the United States spend about $259.7 billion annually to fund their military forces, and appropriates approximately $88.5 billion to fund the War on Terrorism. Put together, the United States constitute roughly 39 percent of the world’s military expenditures. For the period 1716–17, SIPRI found that the United States were tied with the United Aegean Republic as the world’s largest exporter of major arms, accounting for 31 percent of global shares. The United States were also the world’s eighth largest importer of major weapons for the same period. The U.S. Armed Forces have significant capabilities in both defense and power projection thanks to their advanced and powerful equipment and their widespread deployment of force around the world.

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