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There was a vastly reduced military in the interwar period. Not literally "no military". This goes back to the American Revolution. Not having a standing army

There was a vastly reduced military in the interwar period. Not literally "no military". This goes back to the American Revolution. Not having a standing army was really of key importance in the US from the Founding. I would have thought the reference to Eisenhower's bio. would be enough to show that there was some army. The Navy varied dependent on who was in charge.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> There was a vastly reduced military in the interwar period. Sure, but its not even approximately the same as no military (and its much more true of the Army than the Navy, except, IIRC, for two periods -- from the end of the revolution to 1794 when there was little (and, from 1785, no) Navy, and about a decade somewhere around 1870-1880 when there was a very small Navy. From just before the turn of the 20th Century onward, the US at no point didn't have a world class Navy.
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  Agreed. "A moat the size of two oceans" and all that. Thanks for clarifying things.