PPME (ENL) BLOCK 4 HOW THE NAVY THINKS ABOUT WAR

Although regular army forces participated in the hostilities, the Spanish American War was seen as a victory by militia (“volunteer”) forces and proof that the United States didn’t need to maintain a large standing army. True Congress was unwilling to expend the funds necessary to maintain a large standing army during the latter part of the 19th century because ______________. It did not see any threat to the existence of the nation During the American Revolution, the American land forces found success against the British through ______________. A combination of conventional and unconventional actions fought by the continental army, the militia and irregular forces During the American Revolution, the Continental Army ____________________. was created, in part, to convince potential allies that the United States was a legitimate nation Following the end of the First World War, the U.S. _______________. quickly demobilized the vast majority of its large wartime army Guerilla warfare was not present in the Mexican and Civil Wars, which were fought solely between two conventional armies using conventional tactics. False. Guerilla warfare was present in both the Mexican War and the Civil War