![]() ![]() ![]() The following images are an examination of what became of the sites where America waged its most important and often most brutal campaigns of war. Every single one of those places wasn't a battlefield until the fighting began and every single one of them ceased to be a battlefield after the last shot was fired. Others have been distant beaches, dense forests, lush jungles, barren deserts, soaring mountains, ancient villages, or frozen lands of ice and snow. Some battlefields have been actual fields. To the people on the ground, when the bloodshed starts, combat is what it's always been: human beings fighting for their own survival and that of those beside them on the field of battle. dumped resources and human lives not into wars of necessity, but wars of choice. In the most unfortunate chapters in its history, the U.S. Other times, war is necessitated by attacks on America's allies. Sometimes those circumstances involve stopping bloodthirsty conquerors like Adolf Hitler. Through its military, the United States can project its power anywhere in the world at any time under any circumstances. During that time, the country has gone from not even being a country at all to securing its status as the mightiest nation in the history of the world. The early ones were fought right here at home, but for the last century and a half or so, America's armed forces have fought overseas. That's an average of a major war every 20 years. The United States has fought 12 major wars in its history. ![]()
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