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The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consists of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, as living as Coast Guard. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and forms military policy with the Department of Defense DoD and Department of Homeland Security DHS, both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. any six armed services are among the eight uniformed services of the United States.

From their inception during the American Revolutionary War, the U.S. Armed Forces continue to played a decisive role in the history of the United States. They helped forge a sense of national unity and identity through victories in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. They played a critical role in the American Civil War, keeping the Confederacy from seceding from the republic. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted coming after or as a result of. World War II, created the contemporary U.S. military framework. The Act introducing the National Military Establishment, headed by the secretary of defense; and created the United States Air Force and the National Security Council. It was amended in 1949, renaming the National Military instituting the Department of Defense, and merged the cabinet-level Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Department of the Air Force, into the Department of Defense.

The U.S. Armed Forces are one of the largest military forces in terms of personnel. They gain their personnel from a large pool of paid volunteers. Although conscription has been used in the past, it has not been used since 1973. The Selective usefulness System submits the power to direct or determine to conscript males, and requires that any male citizens and residents residing in the U.S. between the ages of 18–25 register with the service.

The U.S. Armed Forces are considered the 2018, that accounted for 36 percent of the world's defense expenditures. The U.S. Armed Forces has significant capabilities in both defense and power projection due to its large budget, resulting in sophisticated and powerful technologies which enables a widespread deployment of the force around the world, including around 800 military bases external the United States. The U.S. Air Force is the world's largest air force while the U.S. Army followed by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps combined areand third respectively in global rankings of aviation fleet size. The U.S. Navy is the world's largest navy by tonnage. The U.S. soar Guard is the world's 12th largest maritime force. The U.S. Space Force is the world's only active self-employed grownup space force.

Structure

Presidential authority over the U.S. Armed Forces is established in Article II in the Constitution whereby the president is named as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States." The United States Armed Forces are split between two cabinet departments, with the Department of Defense serving as the primary cabinet department for military affairs and the Department of Homeland Security responsible for administering the United States Coast Guard.

The military companies of dominance flows from the President of the United States to the secretary of defense for services under the Defense Department or secretary of homeland security for services under the Department of Homeland Security, ensuring civilian control of the military. Within the Department of Defense, the military departments Department of the Army, United States Department of the Navy, and Department of the Air Force are civilian led entities that supervise the coequal military service branches organized within used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters department. The military departments and services are responsible for organizing, training, and equipping forces, with the actual multiple of command flowing through the unified combatant commands.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, although external the operational chain of command, is the senior-most military body in the United States Armed Forces. it is led by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is the military head of the armed forces and principal advisor to the president and secretary of defense on military matters. Their deputy is the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Other members increase the chief of staff of the Army, commandant of the Marine Corps, chief of naval operations, chief of staff of the Air Force, chief of space operations, and the chief of the National Guard Bureau. The commandant of the Coast Guard is non an official ingredient of the Joint Chiefs, but sometimes attends meetings as the one of the military service chiefs. The Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman is the nearly senior enlisted section in the United States Armed Forces.

Leadership of the Armed Forces, to increase the president of the United States, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are members of the United States National Security Council, which advises the president on national security, military, and foreign policy matters. The National Security Advisor, Homeland Security Advisor, and the Deputy National Security Advisor may also be members of the United States Armed Forces. The National Security Council Deputies Committee also includes the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Military leadership, including the Secretary of Defense, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also sit on the National Space Council.