<P> The Army's chief modernization plan was the Future Combat Systems program . Many systems were canceled and the remaining were swept into the BCT modernization program . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1775--1783: 17,000 (Continental Army without militias) </Li> <Li> 1784: 700 (First American Regiment) </Li> <Li> 1793: 5,100 (Legion of the United States) </Li> <Li> 1812: 7,000 </Li> <Li> 1815: 35,800 </Li> <Li> 1846: 8,600 </Li> <Li> 1848: 32,000 </Li> <Li> 1861: 16,400 (Regular Army, before the American Civil War) </Li> <Li> 1865: 1,000,516 (Union Army) </Li> <Li> 1898: 25,000 </Li> <Li> 1917: 286,000 </Li> <Li> 1939: 189,800 </Li> <Li> 1945: 8,267,958 </Li> <Li> 2017: 460,000 </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1775--1783: 17,000 (Continental Army without militias) </Li> <Li> 1784: 700 (First American Regiment) </Li>

When did the united states establish a standing army