The National Defense Act of 1916, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 64–85, 39 Stat. 166, enacted June 3, 1916, was a United States federal law...

Kahn, Republican of California. This legislation updated the National Defense Act of 1916 to reorganize the United States Army and decentralize the procurement...

15th Division 16th Division The National Defense Act of 1916 provided that the "Army of the United States" would consist of the Regular Army, the Volunteer...

During World War I, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916, which required the use of the term "National Guard" for the state militias and further...

title "National Guard" for its militia, and the term became near universal following the Civil War. By the time the National Defense Act of 1916 mandated...

of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force. It was created by the Militia Act of 1903. The National Defense Authorization Act for...

principal ingredient of chemical fertilizer in farming. The US realized it needed control of its own supply. The National Defense Act of 1916 directed the president...

of the National Defense Act of 1916. The first ROTC unit was at Harvard in 1916. Over 5,000 men arrived at Plattsburgh in May 1917 for the first of the...

dangerous world. It was paralleled by the National Defense Act of 1916 that saw a similar expansion of the Army and National Guard. Opposition to heavily armored...

National Guard. The National Defense Act of 1916, as part of the mobilization prior to U.S. entry into World War I, increased the number of required drill...