Although the era of the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as a world power, it also proved to be a watershed event in the U.S. Army's history. During the conflict, the Army gained its first experience in overseas deployment on opposite sides of the world, waged a difficult counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines and, during the Boxer relief expedition, got its first taste of multinational coalition warfare. "Correspondence...
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