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1 Length of U.S. official participation in major wars
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Length of U.S. official participation in major wars

War

Dates

Duration

Timeline

War in Afghanistan

2001/10 - present

8.4 years
(8 years, 5 months)

Vietnam War

1964/08 - 1973/01

8.4 years
(8 years, 5 months)

Iraq War

2003/03 - present

7 years
(6 years)

American Revolutionary War

1776/07 - 1783/04

6.7 years
(6 years, 9 months)

American Civil War

1861/04 - 1865/04

4 years

World War II

1941/12 - 1945/08

3.7 years
(3 years, 8 months)

Korean War

1950/06 - 1953/07

3.1 years
(3 years 1 month)

War of 1812

1812/06 - 1814/12

2.5 years
(2 years, 6 months)

Mexican-American War

1846/05 - 1848/02

1.8 years
(1 year, 10 months)

10.

World War I

1917/04 - 1918/11

1.6 years
(1 year, 7 months)

11.

Spanish-American War

1898/05 - 1898/12

0.7 years
(8 months)

12.

Persian Gulf War

1991/01 - 1991/02

0.1 years
(1.5 months)

(Ongoing wars indicated in bold.) Source: Associated Press^[1]

Notes

The dates used by the Associated Press for official U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War are August 1964 (the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) to January 1973 (the Paris Peace Accords), although U.S. military activities and intervention in Vietnam spanned from 1950 to 1975.^[2]^[3]^[4]
For the Philippine–American War, not included by the Associated Press in their tally above, official start and end dates used by some sources are June 2, 1899 - July 4, 1902, although resistance groups continued fighting until June 15, 1913.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ U.S. Participation in Major Wars
^ Herring, George C.: America's Longest War, p. 18.
^ Zinn, A People's History of the United States, p. 471.
^ Kolko, Gabriel Anatomy of War, pages 457, 461 ff., ISBN 1898876673
^ Delmendo 2004, p. 47.
^ Constantino 1975
^ Agoncillo 1990, p. 247

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Associated Press tally of lengths of U.S. participation in major wars

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