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National Defense Acts. views 3,123,396 updated. National Defense Acts (1916, 1920).These statutes provided major restructuring of the U.S. Army. The 1916 act resulted from the “Preparedness” movement to ready the United States for modern war.
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- The Preparedness Campaign↑
- The National Defense Act of 1916↑
- Preparations For War↑
- Intervention in Mexico↑
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In the years leading up to America’s entry into the First World War a debate raged within the United States over universal military training. The United States had a traditional aversion to maintaining a large peacetime army, with no tradition of peacetime conscription as was common in Germany and France. Hoping to reverse this trend, both civil an...
The first tangible attempt to better prepare American men for possible wartime service came in 1913 when U.S. Army Chief of Staff Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), a strong proponent of national defense, created two experimental military instruction camps for college students to attend during their summer vacations. One was in Gettysburg, Pen...
A direct result of the preparedness movement was the National Defense Act of March 1916. Uncertain whether his diplomatic efforts would succeed in convincing the Germans to halt U-boat attacks against passenger and merchant ships, Wilson approached the question of military preparedness cautiously. The escalating diplomatic exchanges between Wilson ...
The National Defense Act of 1916 affected the size and organization of America’s peacetime military. It authorized an increase in the peacetime strength of the Regular Army over a period of five years to 175,000 men and wartime strength of close to 300,000. Bolstered by federal funds and federally stipulated organization and standards of training, ...
Meanwhile, political instability in Mexico had led to a revolution in 1910 and created tension between the United States and its southern neighbor. Beginning in 1911, Mexico became a continual testing ground for U.S. military preparedness. In April of that year President William H. Taft (1857-1930) sent about 16,000 troops to Texas for "war games" ...
When the First World War commenced in August 1914, the United States had little reason to be concerned about the conflict. Yet when the conflict entered its second year, there was a major reconsideration of American military policy. In 1916 the Preparedness Movement successfully lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would bolster the size, orga...
The National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA) is any of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense. The first NDAA was passed in 1961.
The new National Defense Act of June 4, 1920, which governed the organization and regulation of the Army until 1950, has been widely acknowledged to be one of the most constructive pieces of...
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), FY1961-FY2017. Fiscal. Year. Public Law. Official Title and Programs Added to Scope of Authorization Bill (if any) with citation. 1962. 87-53. Authorize aircraft, missiles and naval vessel appropriations. "Extra Funds Approved For Planes, Missiles, Ships."
The history of the Act (henceforth referred to as NDA) extends from 1912, when 42-year old Captain John McAuley Palmer authored the "Organization of the Land Forces of the United States" for Secretary of War Henry Stimson, to 1944, when now-General Palmer again expressed his thoughts on the citizen army. * A note on definition.
