5/15/2023 0 Comments Warfare 1917 trucos![]() The dispatch of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) to the Western Front constituted the greatest, most intense military effort in the nation’s history to date. Simply put, the United States had never attempted anything approaching what it did in Europe between mid-1917 and late 1918. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to that, during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) the combined American invasion forces never exceeded 20,000. When the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, its most recent expeditionary military efforts had involved sending 10,000 men into Mexico in 19, maintaining a combat force of approximately 25,000 men in the Philippines from 1899 to 1902, and deploying 17,000 men to fight the Spanish in Cuba in 1898.
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