I saw this on LinkedIn. I haven't checked its veracity.
American independence has really meant the start of their forever war. Only 6 full years from 250 without a war somewhere.
1775-1783 - War of Independence
1785-1795 - Northwest Indian War
1798-1803 - Quasi-War with France (at sea)
1801-1805 - First Barbary War (first expansion)
1811-1813 - Tecumseh's War
1812-1815 - Anglo-American War
1814-1819 - First Seminole War
1821-1826 - Clearing the Caribbean Sea of pirates
1823 - War with the Aricara Indians
1832 - Black Hawk War
1835-1842 - Second Seminole War
1836-1837 - Creek War, Indian deportation "Trail of Tears"
1846-1848 - Mexican-American War
1849-1886 - Wars with the Apaches
1855-1858 - Third Seminole War
1855-1855 - Invasion of Fiji and Uruguay
1858-1864 - War for the Bareheaded Hills
1861-1865 - Civil War
1865-1890s - Indian Wars, Great Plains
1890 - invasion Buenos Aires
1891 - invasion Valparaiso (Chile)
1893 - Overthrow. Queen of Hawaii
1894 - US Navy suppresses a mutiny in Rio
1894 and 1896 - invasion Nicaragua
1894-1896 - Operations of US Marines in Korea
1898 - Spanish-American War
1899-1902 - Boxer Rebellion in China
1899-1902 - Philippine-American War
1901 - Colombian Civil War (seized Panama)
1903-1914 - US involvement in Honduras, Dominican Republic, Panama, Cuba
1917-1918 - First World War
A series of "Banana Wars" - Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean
1915-1934 - War and cleansing of Haiti
1916-1924 - Occupation of the Dominican Republic
1918-1920 - Intervention in the Russian Civil War
1926-1933 - War in Nicaragua
1934-1941 - Operations during the occupation of China
1941-1945 - Second World War
1946-1949 - Conflicts in China, Greece
1946-1950 - Occupation in the Philippines
1950-1953 - Korean War
1954 - Operation in Guatemala (US Air Force and CIA)
1954 - First Taiwan Strait Crisis (nuclear blackmail)
1954-1975 - Vietnam War (the last military defeat of the US)
Then the US waged wars not for military victories. The task was: to punish, to exhaust, to carry out coups.
1961 - Bay of Pigs landing in Cuba (epic failure)
1962 - Landing in Thailand
1964-1975 - Secret war in Laos and campaigns in Cambodia
1980 - Operation "Eagle Claw" in Iran
1982-1983 - Operations in Lebanon
1983 - Intervention in Grenada
1984 - Operation in the Gulf of Sidra against Libya
1986 - Operation "El Dorado Canyon" - air strike on Libya
1987-1988 - Operation "Honest Endeavor" - US Navy operations in the Persian Gulf
1989-1990 - Intervention in Panama (Operation "Just Cause")
1990-1991 - War in Iraq ("Desert Shield", "Desert Storm")
1992-1998 - Occupation actions in a collapsing Yugoslavia
1993-1995 - Operations in Somalia
1999 - Bombing of Yugoslavia
2001 - Operations "Enduring Freedom" - in Afghanistan, the Philippines, the Horn of Africa, Western Sahara
2001-2021 - War in Afghanistan
2003-2011 Second Iraq War
2011-present - Military operations in Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.
2014 Coup in Ukraine and start of the proxy war against Russia
2026 invasion of Venezuela and attack on Iran
The doors of the Temple of Janus, open only in time of war, were closed just three times in the history of the Roman Republic.
ReplyDeleteIf we were to move the temporal frame back a bit to start in 1690 and end in 1945, how often was the British state at war?
America was at war with the Indians and was always a very violent country but how different from Persia or China. Russia, no slouch at starting wars, is pacific compared to the USA. How much China has benefitted by not spending her money on wars.
DeleteBut you make two very good points. Even republics can be warlike.
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