What is the longest period the Americans went without their armies being engaged in war with someone?

UM, as long as we've been around, almost like other countries like say, Great Britain?

Wish we were not, but WWII warranted a res ponce don't you think, as did WWI, we can disagree with what is happening today, but please don't forget we (the U.S.) is not ALWAYS the one who starts a war, WWII, which we were not even going to get involved in is one example.

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Dgameguy has given a fairly thorough answer. However, it should be pointed out that even during the period between the world wars, American military units were deployed, and many cases actually engaged, in a number of places. These places include, but are not limited to, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and China. Please note, I am not talking here about embassy guards.

If one includes the extended wars against the Native Americans, such as the three Seminole wars, the Blackhawk War, and numerous other unnamed campaigns against both Eastern and Plains Indians, as well as numerous armed interventions in Latin America both before and after World War I, there has not been a single generation, in fact hardly a decade, since the Founding in which American forces have not been engaged in some kind of fighting with somebody, somewhere.

To answer your question specifically, it is hard to say what would constitute the longest period in which America has gone without committing forces somewhere. This is an issue that I have actually looked into previously, and what conclusion one comes to depends partly on how one defines being "engaged in war with someone." However, I think, based on my own research, and by my own definition of engagement, that even the longest period would have to be about ten years, and probably less.

Dgameguy also does a fine job of explaining the second part of your question, about the so-called "Pax Americana." This term is indeed applied to the period more-or-less from the end of World War II to the present, in which the dominant military and economic position of the United States has apparently provided something of a break in wars between Western powers. Of course, just as with the Pax Romana, there were still conflicts, they just weren't the general types of wars like the two world wars.

The term Pax Americana has also been applied to the Neo-Con pipe dream of a world-girdling American Empire, one of the first steps of which was to have been the invasion of Iraq and its rapid transformation into a democratic, free-market economy dominated, of course, by American power. The rest of the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, was to have followed. It would appear that that version of the Pax will have to remain a mere footnote to history.

Just looking at a general timeline of military history of the United States, I would have to say the period between the end of World War 1 and the beginning of American involvement in World war 2 in December 1941, during which time the United States passed its Neutrality Acts, shrunk its military, and became isolationist.

There are longer periods between major wars, such as between the War of 1812 and the Mexican American War, or between the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War, but there were generally smaller conflicts against Native American Tribes or small expeditionary/imperialistic wars during these stretches of time. Even between the end of the American Revolution and the War of 1812 there was the Quasi-War with France and the War with the Berbery (sp) pirates.

However, the term you used "Pax Americana," is often applied to the period oif time following World War 2 and continuing through this day, as it is a long time of peace between Western countries. However, several conflicts have been fought between western and non-western states, and it would seem that US involvement in Granada, Nicaragua, and the UK's Falkland Island dispute would violate this peace.

During the 1920's thru the beginning of WWII, the US had a policy of isolationism. Since WWII they have constantly been at war, because the militarial-industrialist complex, a lobby of corporations that build items for war, have owned both the republican and democratic parties through their political contributions.

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