America has been at war for all but 6 years since 1776. The last war initiated by Persia (Iran) was from 1775 to 1776

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