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Visualizing The Worst US/NATO Collateral Damage Disasters In History
Early last month, the US did something tragically stupid. The Green Berets, operating in Kunduz in an attempt to beat back Taliban insurgents who have racked up a series of gains prompting Obama to cancel a planned troop drawdown, called in an AC-130 gunship strike and laid waste to a hospital.
Why they did that is the subject of some debate but Doctors Without Borders claims the US and its spec ops knew it was a hospital and while Washington doesn’t necessary dispute that contention, the military claims the Taliban were using the facility as an operating base and firing on the soldiers. Whatever the case, dozens were killed and then just weeks later, the Saudis hit an MSF facility in Yemen.
With that in mind we present the following infographic which details the worst instances of “collateral damage” from US/NATO military operations throughout history.
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The key thing to remember is that collateral roughly rhymes with chattel. We're all chattel to these fucktards. Chattel damage means you can't recover the drone after the otherwise successful attack.
President Barack Obama told his aides that he’s “really good at killing people” while discussing drone strikes.
Spoken like a true narcissistic psychopath. Lack of empathy is one of the most striking features of people with narcissistic personality disorder.
"Narcissists do not consider the pain they inflict on others; nor do they give any credence to others' perceptions," says Dr. Les Carter in the book Enough of You, Let's Talk About Me. "They simply do not care about thoughts and feelings that conflict with their own." Do not expect them to listen, validate, understand, or support anyone unless it suits their own agenda.
To bad psychological evaluations, made fully public, are not a prerequisite for candidates seeking national public office.
Great idea. It should call that "McCain's Law".
Why leave out the UN? They imported cholera to Haiti after all.
Up to 1.3 million excess deaths in Iraq through 2009.
http://web.mit.edu/humancostiraq/HOW%20MANY%20DIED,%20BUSH.html
Consider the "Ultimatum Game" (wikipedia it) as a test of a person's tendency to punish others with no benefit to oneself.
Once again, Alaric, I find you one of the clearest and best on ZH. Can you cite the reference to the Obama quote? - not that I doubt it...
narcissistic personality disorder is the best description of our current president I have seen yet, and without any racist swearwords...Think it applies to Bush II a bit, and also, of course, to Billy Boy and his define "is" or whatever.
Perhaps, in the present system, you have to have narcissistic personality disorder to even run for president, much less get the job.
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Double Down: Game Change 2012” notes President Obama commenting on drone strikes, reportedly telling his aides that he’s “really good at killing people.” The White House did not deny the quote when asked, but a senior White House staffer said Obama "hates leaks".
http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2013/11/06/obama-im-really-...
"you have to have narcissistic personality disorder to even run for president, much less get the job."
I believe that is true.
All front running candidates are cut from the same cloths as those mentioned.
it doesnt really matter if he said it or not...actions speak louder than words and if i killed 50 innocent children do i really need to tell you i am a psychotic fuck...?!
Hes definitely a narcissist but probably not a psychopath.
Netanyahu, however, is both and *he* is not a puppet of guys like netanyahu like obama is.
Obama is a cool young ivy league liberal black guy groomed for years by the Deep State precisely for his Potemkin hope and change from Bush, who was also in the end a puppet of the zionist deep
The Anti American attitude on this website never ceases to amaze me. No country in th world does more to prevent civilian deaths, than the USA, even putting our own soldiers in danger protecting civilians. But you would never know that by reading the posts here. It is obvious that there are a bunch of communists and russian lovers who posts here. Ask any US soldier the lengths that we go to in order to prevent un-needed deaths. I never see any posts here about how the russians do not even try prevent innocent deaths. They use old area type weapons and kill more innocents than the terrorists and nothing is said or just lie, like when the airliner was shot down over Ukraine and they have the russian rebels celebrating on camera, until they found out what they did. What hypocrites all of you are and you either do not have a clue what you are talking about or don't care, because you hate the US and nothing will change your minds. According to independent sources in Syria the russians are killing more civilians every day than the US did in any given month. The russians are Hitting schools and hospitals on an almost daily basis, where is your fake outrage about that? Do you guys work for pravda or puktin?
God bless, respectfully, American Warrior
Fuck you, asshole.
Please, he is not an asshole.
He just took the blue pill.
(Or he is a hopeless troll, but I go for the positive - he is on the blue pill.)
Warrior, "Ask any US soldier the lengths that we go to in order to prevent un-needed deaths."
Why did these soldiers not refuse to deploy? That by itself would prevent un-needed deaths.
Why don't we remove ourselves from the killing theaters? Why have troops in over 100 countries? Murdering innocents is inevitable when thousands of uniformed controlled mobs are put in harms way. Everybody and everything become death threats that must be eliminated.
You might be the dumbest fucker on this board.
Fucking WOW.
Do you believe your own horseshit?
Just about everything you said is a lie.
Whether deliberate our out of Faux News brainwashing I dont know or care.
Fuck you.
American Warrior,
You must be young. It is good that you are here but you must be openminded enough to accept that you and your companions have been brainwashed. Your lives have been reduced to expendable pawns for the sole purposes of attacking and looting other nations. That is why you have earned such hostile responses. You are working for the enemy but don't know it because our leaders are such supreme liars.
Your sense of patriotism has been abused by American office holders who have no loyalty to America, and their unelected friends who have access to policy without any legitimate authority. They do everything in their power to shred the Constitution. They are known as the New World Order (NWO) but of late I have seen them collectively referred to as "The Nation Wreckers." Because that's all they know how do do in order to keep their control on power and money.
The first thing you absolutely must do is seek information. Forget the media, they do not have the most rudimentary grasp on history. They are NWO concubines. Do you understand the term "false flag?" This is an actual military term that comes from the days before aircraft. We and foreign populations are routinely attacked with this method as a means to lock us down through fear.
Are you familiar with Smedley Butler? Did you read his book? No? That's because you're not allowed per the orders of your NWO leaders. They would prefer that you stay in the dark making it that much easier to control you. Just so you know, he was the most decorated Marine in American history. He was a great leader and fighter, and brought home victory every time. His patriotism was beyond question.
And then he found out the awful truth. That he was used and abused just like you, not in the defense of America but as part of a fully armed goon squad risking life and limb to further enrich the corporate and banking cowards who control America. Now Smedley was nobody's fool but the NWO managed to fool him good. Only thing he figured it out and put it all in a book called, "War is a Racket."
Did you know that WW1 was planned from board rooms long before it happened? That the intel heads of England (William Wiseman) and Germany(Max Warburg) were friends all along and that Wiseman went to work for Warburg's bank as soon as the war was over? That Warburg's brother Paul was instrumental in the establishment of the Federal Reserve? That the Federal Reserve is nothing more than a slush fund to underwrite wars, takeovers, and conflict the world over? That you and your friends were then and still are only paid pawns in their vile games?
You need to change your moniker. Until you understand that you are a pawn you are a NWO Warrior. When you learn the truth and understand that we are all hostages you can rightfully revert to your AW moniker.
Take it for what it is, the world is holding up a mirror for you. Turning away in horror is a valid response.
And also you lie. There are no Russian rebels celerating on camera. There are no independent sources in Syria. Russians are not hitting hospitals. All BS western propaganda that you swallow whole and then spit out undigested.
Well, last time I checked we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the Russians. Most here at ZH are actually extremely pro-America; we just don't care to be usefully patriotic zombies that think killing civilians at a slightly lower rate than Russia is what makes us great. The real issue is that most here at ZH just want the full potential of America to be realized. We want to stop wasting blood, treasure and prestige in these stupid wars that are clearly manufactured. And, killing civilians overseas in droves is not only morally unpalatable to most of us, but it also multiplies and festers hate for our country. How many of these victims do you think left sons behind? How may of them do you think then became an "extremist"? It's an endless cycle, all created off of false pretenses of a manufactured war. We are critical because we want what's best for America. I hope you see this one day.
here here....
american warrior - what you say has some truth...the average joe soldier does everything he can NOT to kill innocent people but the higher up you go in the admin that all changes. bill clinton killed like a dozen people so that the news would cover that story instead of the story about monica sucking his dick.
this kind of behavior from american leaders is why the world hate the usa.....
The Anti American attitude on this website never ceases to amaze me. No country in th world does more to prevent civilian deaths, than the USA, even putting our own soldiers in danger protecting civilians. But you would never know that by reading the posts here. It is obvious that there are a bunch of communists and russian lovers who posts here. Ask any US soldier the lengths that we go to in order to prevent un-needed deaths. I never see any posts here about how the russians do not even try prevent innocent deaths. They use old area type weapons and kill more innocents than the terrorists and nothing is said or just lie, like when the airliner was shot down over Ukraine and they have the russian rebels celebrating on camera, until they found out what they did. What hypocrites all of you are and you either do not have a clue what you are talking about or don't care, because you hate the US and nothing will change your minds. According to independent sources in Syria the russians are killing more civilians every day than the US did in any given month. The russians are Hitting schools and hospitals on an almost daily basis, where is your fake outrage about that? Do you guys work for pravda or puktin?
God bless, respectfully, American Warrior
Ever wonder why south of the US border most of those countries are mostly backward and illiterate? Because of US interventions to keep them poor and desperate and ripe for slave labor for US corporations or to steal their resources on the cheap. Goes for much of Africa too. In Chile the CIA coup condemned the country to despotic military rule for 25 years. In the process of the US overthrowing governments in all but two countries down there over the years millions died. The US was behind the breakup of Yugoslavia. The Russians brokered a ceasefire which the US broke the next day with their bombing campaign to halt a genocide that existed only in propaganda. As with every country the US and NATO bomb they destroyed schools, hospitals, waterworks, gas works, power generation facilities. When China annexed Tibet they pretty much left the country alone. Then the CIA set up shop in Nepal to train insurgents for Tibet. After taking it for some time the Chinese reacted and eventually 1.5 million Tibet civilians died and the Dahli Lama in exile. The US created Al Qaeda to get weapons into Afghanistan to sucker the Russians into coming to the rescue, they were invited in they did not invade, of the socialist Afghan government. How's that Al Qaeda thing working out for the US? The CIA organized getting foreign jihadists into Chechnia to start the war. The CIA backed an invasion and civil war in Rwanda that eventually led to the genocide of 800,000 people. The UN gets the blame for this but it was the US that vetoed every resolution to send more UN troops to Rwanda that could have prevented the killing. That rebel leader is now in charge and is feted at the White House as a great man but is conducting a genocide on his own and the US ignores it. The USS Vincennes shoots down an Iranian airliner killing 290+ people, while illegally inside Iranian territorial waters, and the captain and crew get commendations instead of courtmarshals. Iran retaliates by putting a bomb on the Lockerbie flight but for political reasons the US blames Libya and sanctions the hell out of them then conducts a kangaroo court where the only evidence is a piece of a timer and a shirt found well away from the debris field. A top Iranian intelligence defector confirms Iran did it and CIA operatives admit they knew it too at the time. No genocide was going to happen in Benghazi, it was propaganda to justify a no fly zone that the US and NATO illegally turned into a country wide campaign to bomb Libya back to the stone age while destroying infrastructure, gas works, power plants, and water works. In the opinion of many the operation was to get access to Libya's huge stock pile of weapons to send to Syria to topple Assad. With the "liberation" of those weapons Al Qaeda which had a minor presence in Africa went into growth mode and has spread across Africa especially to the Sinai. Peaceful. secular, prosperous Libya is now a basket case with Al Qaeda and ISIS locating training camps there along with occupying some cities. When the elected US puppet president in Yemen was run out of the country the US couldn't scream loud enough about how the war should stop and the president reinstated. Yet when the US backed a coup in Ukraine and the elected president fled for his life not peep out of the US other than hooray. The US is pretty silent on the civilian casualties inflicted by Saudi Arabia in their illegal invasion of Yemen. Also not peep about Ukrainian and US legislators calling for a genocide in east Ukraine to rid them of the people who, if Ukraine were put back together, have the votes to elect another Russian friendly NATO hating government. Ukraine has cut off all supplies, pensions, and bank accounts to those in the rebel areas and the US says not a peep and sends arms and advisors to Kiev but when Russia brings in convoys of food and water they are condemned and accused of bringing in arms. Not a peep out of the US when Ukrainians target civilians with their artillery. Then there's the US drone campaign that's killed thousands of innocent people in as many as 10 countries and is the biggest recruiting device for terrorism against the US. Millions of people living daily in terror afraid to have a family gathering or wedding lest they draw attention and get killed. Then other innocent people rush in to help and get "double tapped". It was the US that encouraged and helped Saddam go to war with Iran. Saddam used gas and not a peep out of the US. After that war Saddam was broke and his Arab friends who he fought the war for were calling in their markers so he prepared to invade Kuwait. Saddam appealed to the US for aid which would have prevented his invasion but was offered nothing but a vague "we don't care what you do" so the war was on. If the US had given Saddam a fraction of what they spent on the Gulf War the wars would never have happened. Between sanctions, the Gulf War, and the Iraq invasion over 2 million civilian Iraqi's, many of them children, died. The US went into Vietnam to prop up a totally hated and corrupt government and ending up with between war and destabilizing the area over 3 million civilian dead in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The liberal use of Agent Orange has given those people and US vets increased cancer rates. Depleted uranium is not radioactive but extemely toxic and is affecting the health of those in the ME where it was used. They also used white phospherous in Iraq which is illegal. As far as those videos of MH 17 I've yet to see the rebels celebrating and the so called admission of them shooting it down nothing more than a play on words. Where are the air traffic controller tapes that Ukraine confiscated from the tower? The US and Ukrainians had satelittes overhead at the time and all we get is a page out of Google earth. Why have we heard nothing of the content of the black boxes? Why was that plane and no others routed over a war zone? Why are autopsies of the pilots kept secret? Why is it that in an area with plenty of people no one saw a missile trail? Over a year later we get a photo of such a missile trial but if it was real it would have surfaced earlier. Why did all the countries involved sign a confidentiality agreement to keep things secret? We could go on for days about the glorious things the US has done and the millions that have died for the sake of US world hegemony and benefits for US corporations. Put down the kool aid and wake up.
Brevity with paragraphs are your friends.
lol that could have filled volumes, Im sure we did get the short version
NDY, great response but I agree with the paragraph comment. You have a lot of valuable information that is difficult to read without spacing. I couldn't get past the first few lines. Please edit re same, I look forward to reading the entire response.
The Anti American attitude on this website never ceases to amaze me. No country in th world does more to prevent civilian deaths, than the USA, even putting our own soldiers in danger protecting civilians. But you would never know that by reading the posts here. It is obvious that there are a bunch of communists and russian lovers who posts here. Ask any US soldier the lengths that we go to in order to prevent un-needed deaths. I never see any posts here about how the russians do not even try prevent innocent deaths. They use old area type weapons and kill more innocents than the terrorists and nothing is said or just lie, like when the airliner was shot down over Ukraine and they have the russian rebels celebrating on camera, until they found out what they did. What hypocrites all of you are and you either do not have a clue what you are talking about or don't care, because you hate the US and nothing will change your minds. According to independent sources in Syria the russians are killing more civilians every day than the US did in any given month. The russians are Hitting schools and hospitals on an almost daily basis, where is your fake outrage about that? Do you guys work for pravda or puktin?
God bless, respectfully, American Warrior
The russians slaughtered 2 million Afghan civilians, 200,000 cheniyans and leveleved nearly every school and hospital in both countries. I would think it hard for anyone to defend ole mother russia, who murdered 30 to 50 million of its own citizens. Not to mention they have not contributed anything to modern society or culture. Nor have they invented anything in the past 50 years that anyone knows about. Additionally, when has russia ever helped out any country after a natural disaster. America takes in more permanent immigrants and donates more money than the rest of the world combined.
God bless, respectfully, American Warrior.
The historically agreed " facts" you and others parade before us have a unifying problem.
The writing of "history" is largely a process of diversion.
Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Who are these "Russians" and who is this "America" you reference?
Think about it.
I don't quite understand your point. That was the Soviet Union. The Russia you are talking about today is a completely different political union. It is like comparing our NeoCon run government today to the one that existed during JFK's presidency, our last non puppet President.
Even aid requires deficit fiat currency, which fits inside the goals of the bankers.
All wars are bankster wars.
You may need to peal off a few more layers of the Onion, but that is what you come to.
The russians slaughtered 2 million Afghan civilians, 200,000 cheniyans and leveleved nearly every school and hospital in both countries. I would think it hard for anyone to defend ole mother russia, who murdered 30 to 50 million of its own citizens. Not to mention they have not contributed anything to modern society or culture. Nor have they invented anything in the past 50 years that anyone knows about. Additionally, when has russia ever helped out any country after a natural disaster. America takes in more permanent immigrants and donates more money than the rest of the world combined.
God bless, respectfully, American Warrior.
The US has killed an estimated 20m plus since the end of WW2. Up there with Hitler, Mao, Stalin. All done under the perverse guise of freedom and domocracy.
PS how is it in your mum's basement
The same dual shit-i-zen people in charge of Amerika now are the same Bolsheviks who murdered 25 million Christian Russians in Russia. These Bolsheviks came from NYC, London, German and had names similar to Nudelman, Soros, Kagin and others like them. They are the elites/banksters or are owned by them.
They run the USA, UK, EU foreign policy of mass murder. Endless wars and endless profits. They control central banks and murdered any US president who opposed central banks or gold and silver as money. The founded and ran groups lik ethe NAACP.
Russia didn't use my money for that.
Russia wasn't 8000 miles from that.
Russia's problems don't concern me.
America wasting it's future on war does.
Sometimes freedom bombs go off course, big deal.
It's still freedom dammit!
Probably understated by 100K.
You mean a factor of 100, don't you?
Civilian casualties were 10% in WWI, 50% in WWII, 75% in Vietnam, and have been rising ever since. Iraq saw a civilian casualty rate of almost 90%. Smart bombs, yeah right! It MUST have been intentional.
"ualties were 10% in WWI, 50% in WWII, 75% in Vietnam, and have been rising ever since. Iraq saw a civilian casualty rate"
dude bullshit. we killed 75 % of the vietnamese yet the world is still over populated? how mush are you payin back fur yer studed loans?
Logic is not your strong point, is it??
Let me clarify what he wrote:
75% of those people killed in Vietnam were civilians and 25 were military personnel.
He did not say 75% of the population was killed.
Correct, but thanks for reminding me of that on this Veteran's day (not). It was FUBAR, ok?
Watch out for total war, because if it comes to your neck of the woods that means they are gunning for civilians.
We NATO'd some folks.
About collateral damage, that Russian plane that crashed, new report out says the US and Israel were having one of their “drills” at the same place and same time. Sound familiar? It was called “Operation Blue Flag”. More like operation false flag.
http://www.legitgov.org/US-and-Israel-conducted-war-games-against-fictional-enemy-state-Sinai-same-day-Russian-plane-crashed
We TWA 800'd some folks.
Speaking of Israel, and on a different note, remember the JPM hack that was blamed on the commies?
http://mediamonarchy.com/2015/11/arrests-made-in-2014-jpmorgan-hack/
Captain Amarca says if they didn't want to be dead they shoulda moved off our war maps. Hoorah!
/S
These numbers seem very cooked to me. 250,000 Kosovo Albanians had been driven from their homes and some 50,000 were threatened by approaching winter weather the propaganda is very very disingenuous. We are 100% certain that every general and bomb maker was paid and every pension for the politicians was paid. This is a totally meaningless information. WHY? The mark of Cain is not erased..
These numbers are NATO kill ratio.
...and to clear things up those Albanians are invaders of Kosovo which has been Serbian for centuries.
They started the shitshow there by attacking
local Serbs. The Western media neglected to report that part. They only reported the Serbia response.
It would be like reporting on WWII as the US and Soviets were bombing Germany and presenting the Germans as sympathetic victims.
Not arguing that the Serbs reacted harshly but the UCK or KLA started killing Serb police, officials and doctors. What then followed on the MSM was outrageous. The BBC said at one point "100,000 Albanian men missing, presumed executed". CNN a couple of days said the same thing the number was 250,000. At that moment I knew the whole conflict was bullshit. Not only was that a blatant lie, it would also mean that the Serbs would have a more efficient killing machine than the nazis because even they could not execute 250,000 people in a few days. But you were meant to believe that Serbs are all genocidal killers. The breakup of Yugoslavia was intentional and very complicated. Foreign powers since the early seventies were already busy with that aim. And the game was to demonize one party, in this case the Serbs, and to victimize the others. With Kosovo, Madeline Albright (from Slovakian Jewish origin whose family was welcomed in and protected against the nazis by Serbia before they emigrated to the US) gave Federal Yugoslav Republic an ultimatum they could not accept, like the Germans and Austrians did in 1914. What then followed was a 78 days aircampaign (NATO thought it would be 48 hours) that destroyed a country and killed at least three times the number of civilians this article says.
Hardly any mention afterwards of the 200.000 Serbs that were ethnically cleansed from Kosovo. In total Serbia had to process almost one million IDP during the breakup of Yugoslavia. Still people cannot return to their ancestral land in Kosovo or Croatia. Yugoslavia was also a test case and the model there is being rinsed and repeated.
Definition of irony: A Serb complaining about ethnic cleansing.
I'm not Serb. More Serbs were ethnically cleansed from their homelands than they cleansed others from their homelands and that is a fact. The numbers don't lie. I am not at all defending Serbs from what they did in the Yugoslav wars but they stood to lose the most and in the end the lost it all. If you think that the Yugoslav war was about Serbs trying to establish a 'greater Serbia' then you are deluded. Everybody wanted to defend their own people after the initial fight of keeping Yugoslavia together had failed.
The Yugoslav war was about getting rid of Yugoslavia cause it lost its purpose to the West of being a buffer against the Warsaw pact, and any socialist alternative to capitalism had to go in Europe. While the latter was not problem in places like Romania and Bulgaria, everybody knew that breaking up Yugoslavia would be bloody because the country had many mixed ethnic groups. But stirring ethnic hatred was exactly the tactics used to break up the country.
More irony: America claiming it defends peace, freedom and democracy by bombing other places to bits and installing puppet regimes.
This is one of those cases where merika should have done the reverse proxy with isrehell. This way the accusations can be called anti-septics.
Hey, some 'folks' make mad money off of all that war machinery and bombs and stuff.
Did you think that comes from farms and trees,? LOL
Pick up that can and empty your pockets, citizen!
I am inclined to doubt that the bombing of the hospital was deliberately done. What I don't for a minute doubt, is that the US armed forces just don't care. They regard pretty much the entire population of the Middle East as sub-human wogs, whose lives have zero value. Indeed, they (the army folk) claim a God-given right to kill. Don't nobody get between a man and his rights! Right?
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-right-to-kill.html
The justification to kill is masked behind fighting terrorism or bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to the savages.
Noble causes that will not make our people and troops think twice about what we're doing over there is wrong.
AND let us remember our standing military has failed to prevail in every major war since WW 2. As a reminder these are: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan
Grenada
We kicked their ass.
Fuck yeah! USA USA USA USA USA
Video evidence courtesy Pvt. Manning.
Most religions have a law that says not to murder.
Most countries have laws against murder.
Collateral damage is not an accident, it is murder. There is no justification in murdering innocents because the target happens to be in a convenient place.
Instead of arguing about whether condoms should be provided through Obamacare or not, Americans should be concerned about murder being committed in their name.
What good is it to speak softly and carrying a big stick if you don't know what you are swinging the stick at?
What a JOKE these numbers are! Fallujah in Iraq alone accounted to more than 15k murders in 'collaterol damage'. These figures are so low that they let the NWO off of their murderous hook.
CabalA$$LickerLiarObamma : 'eet dasn't matter mach too mee, yumman blood is cheaper dan oil & afghan heroin, hey aide , suck it hard & gimme another round of fresh afghan heroin brought by our CIA chaps, pretty good stuff'
It was absolutely deliberate.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260336/its-time-treat-doctors-without-...
Leaving aside the Ziopaths, the nature of the attack indicates it.
1 death is a tragedy. 1000 deaths is a statistic.
Rachel Carson .... the Queen of Collateral Damage ? Pol Poy, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, Japanese occupation of China and Korea .... were worse than the Abu Ghrab naked pyramid games and Guantanamo Halal chicken with saffron rice ?
Freeing the slaves .... Civil War collateral damage ?
Want to counts the collaterals on this US war, hey american retards??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
Polpot, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Il (something), doesn't even make to the WARMONGERING list of YU-ASS.
So, hypocrites YU-ASS retards. Wants to compares civillian casualties now??
Oh BTW, RETURN TEXAS TO MEXICO!! You annex them to be part of YUUUU-ASSSSS..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_annexation
Fucking retards..
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1775–17991775–83 – American Revolutionary War: an armed struggle for secession from the British Empire by the Thirteen Colonies that would subsequently become the United States.
1776–77 – Second Cherokee War: a series of armed conflicts when the Cherokee fought to prevent the encroachment of American settlers into eastern Tennessee and eastern Kentucky; under British rule, this land had been preserved as native territory.
1776–94 – Cherokee–American wars: a continuation of the Second Cherokee War that included a larger number of native tribes attempt to halt the expansion of settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee
1785–95 – Northwest Indian War: a series of battles with various native tribes in present-day Ohio. The goal of the campaign was to affirm American sovereignty over the region and to create increased opportunities for settlement.
1786–87 – Shays' Rebellion: a Western Massachusetts debtor's revolt over a credit squeeze that had financially devastated many farmers. The federal government was fiscally unable to raise an army to assist the state militia in combating the uprising; the weakness of the national government bolstered the arguments in favor of replacing the Articles of Confederation with an updated governmental framework.
1791–94 – Whiskey Rebellion: a series of protests against the institution of a federal tax on the distillation of spirits as a revenue source for repaying the nation's war bonds. The revolt was centered upon southwestern Pennsylvania, although violence occurred throughout the Trans-Appalachian region.
1798–1800 – Quasi-War: an undeclared naval war with France over American default on its war debt. An additional mitigating factor was the continuation of American trade with Britain, with whom their former French allies were at war. This contest included land actions, such as that in the Dominican Republic city of Puerto Plata, where U.S. Marines captured a French vessel under the guns of the forts. Congress authorized military action through a series of statutes.[1]
1799–1800 – Fries' Rebellion: a string of protests against the enactment of new real estate taxes to pay for the Quasi-War. Hostilities were concentrated in the communities of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
1800–18091801–05 – First Barbary War: a series of naval battles in the Mediterranean against the Kingdom of Tripoli, a quasi-independent state of the Ottoman Empire. Action was in response to the capture of numerous American ships by the infamous Barbary pirates. The federal government rejected the Tripolitan request for an annual tribute to guarantee safe passage, and an American naval blockade ensued. After the seizure of the USS Philadelphia, American forces under William Eaton invaded coastal cities. A peace treaty resulted in the payment of a ransom for the return of captured American soldiers and only temporarily eased hostilities.[1]
1806 – Action in Spanish Mexico: The platoon under Captain Zebulon Pike invaded Spanish territory at the headwaters of the Rio Grande on orders from General James Wilkinson. He was made prisoner without resistance at a fort he constructed in present-day Colorado, taken to Mexico, and later released after seizure of his papers.[RL30172]
1806–10 – Action in the Gulf of Mexico: American gunboats operated from New Orleans against Spanish and French privateers off the Mississippi Delta, chiefly under Captain John Shaw and Master Commandant David Porter.[1]
1810–18191810 – West Florida (Spanish territory): Governor William C. C. Claiborne of Louisiana, on orders of President James Madison, occupied with troops territory in dispute east of the Mississippi as far as the Pearl River, later the eastern boundary of Louisiana. He was authorized to seize as far east as the Perdido River.[RL30172]
1812 – Amelia Island and other parts of east Florida, then under Spain: Temporary possession was authorized by President James Madison and by Congress, to prevent occupation by any other power; but possession was obtained by General George Mathews in so irregular a manner that his measures were disavowed by the President.[RL30172]
1812–15 – War of 1812: On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war against the United Kingdom. Among the issues leading to the war were British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, interception of neutral ships and blockades of the United States during British hostilities with France. [RL30172]
1813 – West Florida (Spanish territory): On authority given by Congress, General Wilkinson seized Mobile Bay in April with 600 soldiers. A small Spanish garrison gave way. Thus U.S. troops advanced into disputed territory to the Perdido River, as projected in 1810. No fighting.[RL30172]
1813–14 – Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia): U.S. forces built a fort on the island of Nuku Hiva to protect three prize ships which had been captured from the British.[RL30172]
1814 – Spanish Florida: General Andrew Jackson took Pensacola and drove out the British forces.[RL30172]
1814–25 – Caribbean: Engagements between pirates and American ships or squadrons took place repeatedly especially ashore and offshore about Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Yucatán. Three thousand pirate attacks on merchantmen were reported between 1815 and 1823. In 1822, Commodore James Biddle employed a squadron of two frigates, four sloops of war, two brigs, four schooners, and two gunboats in the West Indies.[RL30172]
1815 – Algiers: The Second Barbary War was declared against the United States by the Dey of Algiers of the Barbary states, an act not reciprocated by the United States. Congress did authorize a military expedition by statute. A large fleet under Captain Stephen Decatur attacked Algiers and obtained indemnities.[RL30172]
1815 – Tripoli: After securing an agreement from Algiers, Captain Decatur demonstrated with his squadron at Tunis and Tripoli, where he secured indemnities for offenses during the War of 1812.[RL30172]
1816 – Spanish Florida: United States forces destroyed Negro Fort, which harbored fugitive slaves making raids into United States territory.[RL30172]
1816–18 – Spanish Florida – First Seminole War: The Seminole Indians, whose area was a haven for escaped slaves and border ruffians, were attacked by troops under General Jackson and General Edmund P. Gaines and pursued into northern Florida. Spanish posts were attacked and occupied, British citizens executed. In 1819 the Floridas were ceded to the United States.[RL30172]
1817 – Amelia Island (Spanish territory off Florida): Under orders of President James Monroe, United States forces landed and expelled a group of smugglers, adventurers, and freebooters. This episode in Florida's history became known as the Amelia Island Affair.[RL30172]
1818 – Oregon: The USS Ontario dispatched from Washington, which made a landing at the mouth of the Columbia River to assert US claims. Britain had conceded sovereignty but Russia and Spain asserted claims to the area.[RL30172] Subsequently, American and British claims to the Oregon Country were resolved with the Oregon Treaty of 1846.[RL30172]
1820–18291820–23 – Africa: Naval units raided the slave traffic pursuant to the 1819 act of Congress. [RL30172][Slave Traffic]
1822 – Cuba: United States naval forces suppressing piracy landed on the northwest coast of Cuba and burned a pirate station.[RL30172]
1823 – Cuba: Brief landings in pursuit of pirates occurred April 8 near Escondido; April 16 near Cayo Blanco; July 11 at Siquapa Bay; July 21 at Cape Cruz; and October 23 at Camrioca.[RL30172]
1824 – Cuba: In October the USS Porpoise landed sailors near Matanzas in pursuit of pirates. This was during the cruise authorized in 1822.[RL30172]
1824 – Puerto Rico (Spanish territory): Commodore David Porter with a landing party attacked the town of Fajardo which had sheltered pirates and insulted American naval officers. He landed with 200 men in November and forced an apology. Commodore Porter was later court-martialed for overstepping his powers.[RL30172]
1825 – Cuba: In March cooperating American and British forces landed at Sagua La Grande to capture pirates.[RL30172]
1827 – Greece:[2] In October and November, landing parties hunted pirates on the Mediterranean islands of Argentiere (Kimolos), Myconos, and Andros.[RL30172]
1830–18391831–32 – Falkland Islands: Captain Silas Duncan of the USS Lexington attacked, looted and burned the Argentine town of Puerto Soledad in Malvinas islands. This was in response to the capture of three American sailing vessels which were detained after ignoring orders to stop depredation of local fishing resources without permission from the Argentine government. Subsequently the islands were invaded by the UK in 1833 remaining to this day.[RL30172]
1832 – Attack on Quallah Battoo: Sumatra, Indonesia – February 6 to 9, U.S. forces under Commodore John Downes aboard the frigate USS Potomac landed and stormed a fort to punish natives of the town of Quallah Battoo for plundering the American cargo ship Friendship.[RL30172]
1833 – Argentina: October 31 to November 15, A force was sent ashore at Buenos Aires to protect the interests of the United States and other countries during an insurrection.[RL30172]
1835–36 – Peru: December 10, 1835 to January 24, 1836 and August 31 to December 7, 1836, Marines protected American interests in Callao and Lima during an attempted revolution.[RL30172]
1835–42 – Florida Territory: United States Navy supports the Army's efforts at quelling uprisings and attacks on civilians by Seminole Indians. Government's efforts to relocate the Seminoles to west of the Mississippi are hindered by 7 years of war.
1838 – The Caroline affair on Navy Island, Canada: After the failure of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 favoring Canadian democracy and independence from the British Empire; William Lyon Mackenzie and his rebels fled to Navy Island where they declared the Republic of Canada. American sympathizers sent supplies on the SS Caroline, which was intercepted by the British and set ablaze, after killing one American. It was falsely reported that dozens of Americans were killed as they were trapped on board, and American forces retaliated by burning a British steamer while it was in U.S. waters.
1838–39 – Sumatra (Indonesia): December 24, 1838 to January 4, 1839, A naval force landed to punish natives of the towns of Quallah Battoo and Muckie (Mukki) for depredations on American shipping.[RL30172]
1840–18491840 – Fiji Islands: In July, naval forces landed to punish natives for attacking American exploring and surveying parties.[RL30172]
1841 – McKean Island (Drummond Island/Taputenea), Gilbert Islands (Kingsmill Group), Pacific Ocean: A naval party landed to avenge the murder of a seaman by the natives.[RL30172]
1841 – Samoa: On February 24, a naval party landed and burned towns after the murder of an American seaman on Upolu.[RL30172]
1842 – Mexico: Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, in command of a squadron long cruising off California, occupied Monterey, California, on October 19, believing war had come. He discovered peace, withdrew, and saluted. A similar incident occurred a week later at San Diego.[RL30172]
1843 – China: Sailors and marines from the St. Louis were landed after a clash between Americans and Chinese at the trading post in Canton.[RL30172]
1843 – Africa: From November 29 to December 16, four United States vessels demonstrated and landed various parties (one of 200 marines and sailors) to discourage piracy and the slave trade along the Ivory Coast, and to punish attacks by the natives on American seamen and shipping.[RL30172]
1844 – Mexico: President Tyler deployed U.S. forces to protect Texas against Mexico, pending Senate approval of a treaty of annexation (which was later rejected). He defended his action against a Senate resolution of inquiry.[RL30172]
1846–48 – Mexican–American War: On May 13, 1846, the United States recognized the existence of a state of war with Mexico. After the annexation of Texas in 1845, the United States and Mexico failed to resolve a boundary dispute and President Polk said that it was necessary to deploy forces in Mexico to meet a threatened invasion.
The war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848. The treaty gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, established the U.S.–Mexican border of the Rio Grande, and ceded to the United States the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. In return, Mexico received US$18,250,000 (about $499,000,000 in 2015)[3] — less than half the amount the U.S. had attempted to offer Mexico for the land before the opening of hostilities.[RL30172]
1849 – Smyrna (?zmir, Turkey): In July, a naval force gained release of an American seized by Austrian officials.[RL30172]
1850–18591851 – Ottoman Empire: After a massacre of foreigners (including Americans) at Jaffa in January, a demonstration by the Mediterranean Squadron was ordered along the Turkish (Levantine) coast.[RL30172]
1851 – Johanna Island (modern Anjouan, east of Africa): In August, forces from the U.S. sloop-of-war Dale exacted redress for the unlawful imprisonment of the captain of an American whaling brig.[RL30172]
1852–53 – Argentina: February 3 to 12, 1852; September 17, 1852 to April 1853: Marines were landed and maintained in Buenos Aires to protect American interests during a revolution.[RL30172]
1853 – Nicaragua: March 11 to 13, US forces landed to protect American lives and interests during political disturbances.[RL30172]
1853–54 – Japan: Commodore Matthew Perry and his expedition made a display of force leading to the "opening of Japan".[RL30172]
1853–54 – Ry?ky? and Bonin Islands (Japan): Commodore Matthew Perry on three visits before going to Japan and while waiting for a reply from Japan made a naval demonstration, landing marines twice, and secured a coaling concession from the ruler of Naha on Okinawa; he also demonstrated in the Bonin Islands with the purpose of securing facilities for commerce.[RL30172]
1854 – China: April 4 to June 17, American and English ships landed forces to protect American interests in and near Shanghai during Chinese civil strife.[RL30172]
1854 – Nicaragua: On July 9–15, naval forces bombarded and burned San Juan del Norte (Greytown) to avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua.[RL30172]
1855 – China: On May 19–21, U.S. forces protected American interests in Shanghai and, from August 3 to 5 fought pirates near Hong Kong.[RL30172]
1855 – Fiji Islands: From September 12 to November 4, an American naval force landed to seek reparations for attacks on American residents and seamen.[RL30172]
1855 – Uruguay: On November 25–29, United States and European naval forces landed to protect American interests during an attempted revolution in Montevideo.[RL30172]
1856 – Panama, Republic of New Grenada: On September 19–22, U.S. forces landed to protect American interests during an insurrection.[RL30172]
1856 – China: From October 22 to December 6, U.S. forces landed to protect American interests at Canton during hostilities between the British and the Chinese, and to avenge an assault upon an unarmed boat displaying the United States flag.[RL30172]
1857–58 – Utah War: The Utah War was a dispute between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the United States federal government. The Mormons and Washington each sought control over the government of the territory, with the national government victorious. The confrontation between the Mormon militia and the U.S. Army involved some destruction of property, but no actual battles between the contending military forces.
1857 – Nicaragua: April to May, November to December. In May, Commander Charles Henry Davis of the United States Navy, with some marines, received the surrender of William Walker, self-proclaimed president of Nicaragua, who was losing control of the country to forces financed by his former business partner, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and protected his men from the retaliation of native allies who had been fighting Walker. In November and December of the same year United States vessels USS Saratoga, USS Wabash, and Fulton opposed another attempt of William Walker on Nicaragua. Commodore Hiram Paulding's act of landing marines and compelling the removal of Walker to the United States, was tacitly disavowed by Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and Paulding was forced into retirement.[RL30172]
1858 – Uruguay: From January 2 to 27, forces from two United States warships landed to protect American property during a revolution in Montevideo.[RL30172]
1858 – Fiji Islands: From October 6 to 16, a marine expedition with the USS Vandalia killed 14 natives and burned 115 huts in retaliation for the murder of two American citizens at Waya.[RL30172] [Vandalia 1] [Vandalia 2]
1858–59 – Ottoman Empire: The Secretary of State requested a display of naval force along the Levant after a massacre of Americans at Jaffa and mistreatment elsewhere "to remind the authorities (of the Ottoman Empire) of the power of the United States."[RL30172]
1859 – Paraguay: Congress authorized a naval squadron to seek redress for an attack on a naval vessel in the Paraná River during 1855. Apologies were made after a large display of force.[RL30172]
1859 – Mexico: Two hundred United States soldiers crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit of the Mexican nationalist Juan Cortina.[RL30172] [1859 Mexico]
1859 – China: From July 31 to August 2, a naval force landed to protect American interests in Shanghai.[RL30172]
1860–18691860 – Angola, Portuguese West Africa: On March 1, American residents at Kissembo called upon American and British ships to protect lives and property during problems with natives.[RL30172]
1860 – Colombia, Bay of Panama: From September 27 to October 8, naval forces landed to protect American interests during a revolution.[RL30172]
1861–65 – American Civil War: A major war between the United States (the Union) and eleven Southern states which declared that they had a right to secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
1863 – Japan: July 16, Naval battle of Shimonoseki: The USS Wyoming retaliated against a firing on the American vessel Pembroke at Shimonoseki.[RL30172]
1864 – Japan: From July 14 to August 3, naval forces protected the United States Minister to Japan when he visited Yedo to negotiate concerning some American claims against Japan, and to make his negotiations easier by impressing the Japanese with American power.[RL30172]
1864 – Japan: From September 4 to 14, naval forces of the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands compelled Japan and the Prince of Nagato in particular to permit the Straits of Shimonoseki to be used by foreign shipping in accordance with treaties already signed.[RL30172]
1865 – Panama: On March 9 and 10, US forces protected the lives and property of American residents during a revolution.[RL30172]
1865–77 – Southern United States – Reconstruction following the American Civil War: The South is divided into five Union occupation districts under the Reconstruction Act.
1866 – Mexico: To protect American residents, General Sedgwick and 100 men in November obtained surrender of Matamoros, on the border state of Tamaulipas. After three days he was ordered by US Government to withdraw. His act was repudiated by the President.[RL30172]
1866 – China: From June 20 to July 7, US forces punished an assault on the American consul at Newchwang.[RL30172]
1867 – Nicaragua: Marines occupied Managua and Leon.
1867 – Formosa (island of Taiwan): On June 13, a naval force landed and burned a number of huts to punish the murder of the crew of a wrecked American vessel.
1868 – Japan (Osaka, Hiolo, Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Negata): February 4 to 8, April 4 to May 12, June 12 and 13. US forces were landed to protect American interests during a civil war (Boshin War) in Japan.[RL30172]
1868 – Uruguay: On February 7–8, and 19–26, US forces protected foreign residents and the customhouse during an insurrection at Montevideo.[RL30172]
1868 – Colombia: In April, US forces protected passengers and treasure in transit at Aspinwall during the absence of local police or troops on the occasion of the death of the President of Colombia.[RL30172]
1870–18791870 – Battle of Boca Teacapan: On June 17 and 18, US forces destroyed the pirate ship Forward, which had been run aground about 40 miles up the Teacapan Estuary in Mexico.[RL30172]
1870 – Kingdom of Hawaii: On September 21, US forces placed the American flag at half-mast upon the death of Queen Kalama, when the American consul at Honolulu would not assume responsibility for so doing.[RL30172]
1872 – Korea: Shinmiyangyo – June 10 to 12, A US naval force attacked and captured five forts to force stalled negotiations on trade agreements and to punish natives for depredations on Americans, particularly for executing the crew of the General Sherman and burning the schooner (which in turn happened because the crew had stolen food and kidnapped a Korean official), and for later firing on other American small boats taking soundings up the Salee River. [RL30172]
1873 – Colombia (Bay of Panama): May 7 to 22, September 23 to October 9. U.S. forces protected American interests during hostilities between local groups over control of the government of the State of Panama.[RL30172]
1873–96 – Mexico: United States troops crossed the Mexican border repeatedly in pursuit of cattle thieves and other brigands.[RL30172]
1874 – Honolulu Courthouse Riot: From February 12 to 20, detachments from American vessels were landed to protect the interests of Americans living in the Kingdom of Hawaii during the coronation of a new king.[RL30172]
1876 – Mexico: On May 18, an American force was landed to police the town of Matamoros, Mexico, temporarily while it was without other government.[RL30172]
1878 – Lincoln County, New Mexico: On July 15–19, during the Battle of Lincoln (1878) (part of the Lincoln County War) 150 cavalry-men arrived from Fort Stanton, under the command of Lieutenant George Smith (later Colonel Nathan Dudley) to assist the Murphy-Dolan Faction in attacking the Lincoln County Regulators vigilante group. 5 dead, 8–28 wounded.[citation needed]
1880–18891882 – Egyptian Expedition: July 14 to 18, American forces landed to protect American interests during warfare between British and Egyptians and looting of the city of Alexandria by Arabs.[RL30172]
1885 – Panama (Colón): January 18 and 19, US forces were used to guard the valuables in transit over the Panama Railroad, and the safes and vaults of the company during revolutionary activity. In March, April, and May in the cities of Colón and Panama, the forces helped reestablish freedom of transit during revolutionary activity (see Burning of Colón).[RL30172]
1888 – Korea: June, A naval force was sent ashore to protect American residents in Seoul during unsettled political conditions, when an outbreak of the populace was expected.[RL30172]
1888 – Haiti: December 20, A display of force persuaded the Haitian Government to give up an American steamer which had been seized on the charge of breach of blockade.[RL30172]
1888–89 – Samoan crisis; First Samoan Civil War; Second Samoan Civil War: November 14, 1888 to March 20, 1889, US forces were landed to protect American citizens and the consulate during a native civil war.[RL30172]
1889 – Kingdom of Hawaii: July 30 and 31, US forces at Honolulu protected the interests of Americans living in Hawaii during an American led revolution.[RL30172]
1890–18991890 – Argentina: A naval party landed to protect US consulate and legation in Buenos Aires.[RL30172]
1890 – South Dakota: December 29, Soldiers of the US Army 7th Cavalry killed 178 Sioux Amerindians following an incident over a disarmament-inspection at a Lakota Sioux encampment near Wounded Knee Creek. 89 other Amerinds were injured, 150 were reported missing; Army casualties were 25 killed, 39 wounded.[citation needed]
1891 – Haiti: US forces sought to protect American lives and property on Navassa Island.[RL30172]
1891 – Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations: July 2 to October 5, Naval forces sought to stop seal poaching.[RL30172]
1891 – Itata Incident: US and European naval forces intercepted and detained a shipment of arms sent to the Congressionalist forces in the Chilean Civil War.
1891 – Chile: August 28 to 30, US forces protected the American consulate and the women and children who had taken refuge in it during a revolution in Valparaíso.[RL30172]
1892 – Homestead Strike: On July 6, Striking miners attack Pinkerton National Detective Agency agents attempting to break the strike by bringing non-union workers to the mine. 6,000 Pennsylvania state militiamen sent to reinstate law and order. 16 dead, 27–47 wounded
1892 – Wyoming: April 11 to April 13, U.S. Cavalry sent to breakup a gun battle at the TA Ranch. Johnson County War
1893 – Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom: January 16 to April 1, Marines landed in Hawaii, ostensibly to protect American lives and property, but many believed actually to promote a provisional government under Sanford B. Dole. This action was disavowed by President Cleveland, and the United States apologized in 1993.[RL30172]
1894 – Nicaragua: July 6 to August 7, US forces sought to protect American interests at Bluefields following a revolution.[RL30172]
1894–95 – China: Marines were stationed at Tientsin and penetrated to Peking for protection purposes during the First Sino-Japanese War.[RL30172]
1894–95 – China: A naval vessel was beached and used as a fort at Newchwang for protection of American nationals.[RL30172]
1894–96 – Korea: July 24, 1894 to April 3, 1896, A guard of marines was sent to protect the American legation and American lives and interests at Seoul during and following the Sino-Japanese War.[RL30172]
1895 – Colombia: March 8 and 9, US forces protected American interests during an attack on the town of Bocas del Toro by a bandit chieftain.[RL30172]
1896 – Nicaragua: May 2 to 4, US forces protected American interests in Corinto during political unrest.[RL30172]
1898 – Nicaragua: February 7 and 8, US forces protected American lives and property at San Juan del Sur.[RL30172]
1898 – Spanish–American War: On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war with Spain, ostensibly aligned with Cuban rebels. The war followed a Cuban insurrection, the Cuban War of Independence against Spanish rule and the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor at Havana.[RL30172]
1898–99 – Samoa: Second Samoan Civil War, a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain.
1898–99 – China: November 5, 1898 to March 15, 1899, US forces provided a guard for the legation at Peking and the consulate at Tientsin during contest between the Dowager Empress and her son.[RL30172]
1899 – Nicaragua: American and British naval forces were landed to protect national interests at San Juan del Norte, February 22 to March 5, and at Bluefields a few weeks later in connection with the insurrection of Gen. Juan P. Reyes.[RL30172]
1899–1913 – Philippine Islands: Philippine–American War, US forces protected American interests following the war with Spain, defeating Filipino revolutionaries seeking immediate national independence.[RL30172] The U.S. government declared the "insurgency" officially over in 1902, when the Filipino leadership generally accepted American rule. Skirmishes between government troops and armed groups lasted until 1913, and some historians consider these unofficial extensions of the war.[4]
1900–19091900 – China: From May 24 to September 28, Boxer Rebellion. American troops participated in operations to protect foreign lives during the Boxer uprising, particularly at Peking. For many years after this experience a permanent legation guard was maintained in Peking, and was strengthened at times as trouble threatened.[RL30172]
1901 – Colombia (State of Panama): From November 20 to December 4. (See: Separation of Panama from Colombia) US forces protected American property on the Isthmus and kept transit lines open during serious revolutionary disturbances.[RL30172]
1902 – Colombia: From April 16 to 23, US forces protected American lives and property at Bocas del Toro during a civil war.[RL30172]
1902 – Colombia (State of Panama): From September 17 to November 18, the United States placed armed guards on all trains crossing the Isthmus to keep the railroad line open, and stationed ships on both sides of Panama to prevent the landing of Colombian troops.[RL30172]
1903 – Honduras: From March 23 to 30 or 31, US forces protected the American consulate and the steamship wharf at Puerto Cortes during a period of revolutionary activity.[RL30172]
1903 – Dominican Republic: From March 30 to April 21, a detachment of marines was landed to protect American interests in the city of Santo Domingo during a revolutionary outbreak.[RL30172]
1903 – Syria: From September 7 to 12, US forces protected the American consulate in Beirut when a local Muslim uprising was feared.[RL30172]
1903–04 – Abyssinia (Ethiopia): Twenty-five Marines were sent to Abyssinia to protect the US Consul General while he negotiated a treaty.[RL30172]
1903–14 – Panama: US forces sought to protect American interests and lives during and following the revolution for independence from Colombia over construction of the Isthmian Canal. With brief intermissions, United States Marines were stationed on the Isthmus from November 4, 1903 to January 21, 1914 to guard American interests.[RL30172]
1904 – Dominican Republic: From January 2 to February 11, American and British naval forces established an area in which no fighting would be allowed and protected American interests in Puerto Plata and Sosua and Santo Domingo City during revolutionary fighting.[RL30172]
1904 – Tangier, Morocco: "We want either Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." A squadron demonstrated to force release of a kidnapped American. Marines were landed to protect the consul general.[RL30172]
1904 – Panama: From November 17 to 24, U.S forces protected American lives and property at Ancon at the time of a threatened insurrection.[RL30172]
1904–05 – Korea: From January 5, 1904 to November 11, 1905, a guard of Marines was sent to protect the American legation in Seoul during the Russo-Japanese War.[RL30172]
1906–09 – Cuba: From September 1906 to January 23, 1909, US forces sought to protect interests and re-establish a government after revolutionary activity.[RL30172]
1907 – Honduras: From March 18 to June 8, to protect American interests during a war between Honduras and Nicaragua, troops were stationed in Trujillo, Ceiba, Puerto Cortes, San Pedro Sula, Laguna and Choloma.[RL30172]
1910–19191910 – Nicaragua: From May 19 to September 4, Occupation of Nicaragua. U.S. forces protected American interests at Bluefields.[RL30172]
1911 – Honduras: On January 26, American naval detachments were landed to protect American lives and interests during a civil war in Honduras.[RL30172]
1911 – China: As the Tongmenghui-led Xinhai Revolution approached, in October an ensign and 10 men tried to enter Wuchang to rescue missionaries but retired on being warned away, and a small landing force guarded American private property and consulate at Hankow. Marines were deployed in November to guard the cable stations at Shanghai; landing forces were sent for protection in Nanking, Chinkiang, Taku and elsewhere.[RL30172]
1912 – Honduras: A small force landed to prevent seizure by the government of an American-owned railroad at Puerto Cortes. The forces were withdrawn after the United States disapproved the action.[RL30172]
1912 – Panama: Troops, on request of both political parties, supervised elections outside the Panama Canal Zone.[RL30172]
1912 – Cuba: From June 5 to August 5, U.S. forces protected American interests in Oriente Province and in Havana.[RL30172]
1912 – China: August 24–26, on Kentucky Island, and August 26–30 at Camp Nicholson. U.S. forces protected Americans and American interests during the Xinhai Revolution.[RL30172]
1912 – Turkey: From November 18 to December 3, U.S. forces guarded the American legation at Constantinople during the First Balkan War[RL30172]
1912–25 – Nicaragua: From August to November 1912, U.S. forces protected American interests during an attempted revolution. A small force, serving as a legation guard and seeking to promote peace and stability, remained until August 5, 1925.[RL30172]
1912–41 – China: The disorders which began with the overthrow of the dynasty during Kuomintang rebellion in 1912, which were redirected by the invasion of China by Japan, led to demonstrations and landing parties for the protection of U.S. interests in China continuously and at many points from 1912 on to 1941. The guard at Peking and along the route to the sea was maintained until 1941. In 1927, the United States had 5,670 troops ashore in China and 44 naval vessels in its waters. In 1933 the United States had 3,027 armed men ashore. The protective action was generally based on treaties with China concluded from 1858 to 1901.[RL30172]
1913 – Mexico: From September 5 to 7, a few marines landed at Ciaris Estero to aid in evacuating American citizens and others from the Yaqui Valley, made dangerous for foreigners by civil strife.[RL30172]
1914 – Haiti: January 29 to February 9, February 20 and 21, October 19. Intermittently, U.S. naval forces protected American nationals in a time of rioting and revolution.[RL30172] The specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to "protect American and foreign" interests.[citation needed]
1914 – Dominican Republic: In June and July, during a revolutionary movement, United States naval forces by gunfire stopped the bombardment of Puerto Plata, and by threat of force maintained Santo Domingo City as a neutral zone.[RL30172]
1914–17 – Mexico: Tampico Affair led to Occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. Undeclared Mexican–American hostilities followed the Tampico Affair and Villa's raids . Also Pancho Villa Expedition) – an abortive military operation conducted by the United States Army against the military forces of Francisco "Pancho" Villa from 1916 to 1917 and included capture of Veracruz. On March 19, 1915 on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, and with tacit consent by Venustiano Carranza General John J. Pershing led an invasion force of 10,000 men into Mexico to capture Villa.[RL30172]
1915–34 – Haiti: From July 28, 1915 to August 15, 1934, United States occupation of Haiti. US forces maintained order during a period of chronic political instability.[RL30172] During the initial entrance into Haiti, the specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to "protect American and foreign" interests.[citation needed]
1916 – China: American forces landed to quell a riot taking place on American property in Nanking.[RL30172]
1916–24 – Dominican Republic: From May 1916 to September 1924, Occupation of the Dominican Republic. American naval forces maintained order during a period of chronic and threatened insurrection.[RL30172]
1917 – China: American troops were landed at Chungking to protect American lives during a political crisis.[RL30172]
1917–18 – World War I: On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war with Germany and on December 7, 1917, with Austria-Hungary. Entrance of the United States into the war was precipitated by Germany's submarine warfare against neutral shipping and the Zimmermann Telegram.[RL30172]
1917–22 – Cuba: U.S. forces protected American interests during insurrection and subsequent unsettled conditions. Most of the United States armed forces left Cuba by August 1919, but two companies remained at Camaguey until February 1922.[RL30172]
1918–19 – Mexico: After withdrawal of the Pershing expedition, U.S. troops entered Mexico in pursuit of bandits at least three times in 1918 and six times in 1919. In August 1918, American and Mexican troops fought at Nogales, Battle of Ambos Nogales. The incident began when German spies plotted an attack with Mexican soldiers on Nogales Arizona. The fighting began when a Mexican officer shot and killed a U.S. soldier on American soil. A full-scale battle then ensued, ending with a Mexican surrender.[RL30172]
1918–20 – Panama: U.S. forces were used for police duty according to treaty stipulations, at Chiriqui, during election disturbances and subsequent unrest.[RL30172]
1918–20 – Russian SFSR: Marines were landed at and near Vladivostok in June and July to protect the American consulate and other points in the fighting between the Bolshevik troops and the Czech Army which had traversed Siberia from the western front. A joint proclamation of emergency government and neutrality was issued by the American, Japanese, British, French, and Czech commanders in July. In August 7,000 men were landed in Vladivostok and remained until January 1920, as part of an allied occupation force. In September 1918, 5,000 American troops joined the allied intervention force at Archangel and remained until June 1919. These operations were in response to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and were partly supported by Czarist or Kerensky elements. [RL30172] For details, see the American Expeditionary Force Siberia and the American Expeditionary Force North Russia.
1919 – Dalmatia (Croatia): U.S. forces were landed at Trau at the request of Italian authorities to police order between the Italians and Serbs.[RL30172]
1919 – Turkey: Marines from the USS Arizona were landed to guard the U.S. Consulate during the Greek occupation of Constantinople.[RL30172]
1919 – Honduras: From September 8 to 12, a landing force was sent ashore to maintain order in a neutral zone during an attempted revolution.[RL30172]
1920–19291920 – China: On March 14, a landing force was sent ashore for a few hours to protect lives during a disturbance at Kiukiang.[RL30172]
1920 – Guatemala: From April 9 to 27, U.S. forces protected the American Legation and other American interests, such as the cable station, during a period of fighting between Unionists and the Government of Guatemala.[RL30172]
1920–22 – Russia (Siberia): From February 16, 1920 to November 19, 1922, a Marine guard was sent to protect the United States radio station and property on Russian Island, Bay of Vladivostok.[RL30172]
1921 – Panama and Costa Rica: American naval squadrons demonstrated in April on both sides of the Isthmus to prevent war between the two countries over a boundary dispute.[RL30172]
1922 – Turkey: In September and October, a landing force was sent ashore with consent of both Greek and Turkish authorities, to protect American lives and property when the Turkish nationalists entered ?zmir (Smyrna).[RL30172]
1922–23 – China: From April 1922 to November 1923, Marines were landed five times to protect Americans during periods of unrest.[RL30172]
1924 – Honduras: From February 28 to March 31, and from September 10 to 15, U.S. forces protected American lives and interests during election hostilities.[RL30172]
1924 – China: In September, Marines were landed to protect Americans and other foreigners in Shanghai during Chinese factional hostilities.[RL30172]
1925 – China: From January 15 to August 29, fighting of Chinese factions accompanied by riots and demonstrations in Shanghai brought the landing of American forces to protect lives and property in the International Settlement.[RL30172]
1925 – Honduras: From April 19 to 21, U.S. forces protected foreigners at La Ceiba during a political upheaval.[RL30172]
1925 – Panama: From October 12 to 23, strikes and rent riots led to the landing of about 600 American troops to keep order and protect American interests.[RL30172]
1926–33 – Nicaragua: From May 7 to June 5, 1926 and August 27, 1926 to January 3, 1933, the coup d'état of General Chamorro aroused revolutionary activities leading to the landing of American marines to protect the interests of the United States. United States forces came and went intermittently until January 3, 1933.[RL30172]
1926 – China: In August and September, the Nationalist attack on Hankow brought the landing of American naval forces to protect American citizens. A small guard was maintained at the consulate general even after September 16, when the rest of the forces were withdrawn. Likewise, when Nationalist forces captured Kiukiang, naval forces were landed for the protection of foreigners November 4 to 6.[RL30172]
1927 – China: In February, fighting at Shanghai caused presence American naval forces and marines to be increased. In March, a naval guard was stationed at American consulate at Nanking after Nationalist forces captured the city. American and British destroyers later used shell fire to protect Americans and other foreigners. Subsequently additional forces of Marines and naval forces were stationed in the vicinity of Shanghai and Tientsin.[RL30172]
1930–19391932 – China: American forces were landed to protect American interests during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.[RL30172]
1932 – United States: "Bonus Army" of 17,000 WWI veterans plus 20,000 family cleared from Washington and then Anacostia flats "Hooverville" by 3rd Cavalry and 12th Infantry Regiments under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, July 28.
1933 – Cuba: During a revolution against President Gerardo Machado naval forces demonstrated but no landing was made.[RL30172]
1934 – China: Marines landed at Foochow to protect the American Consulate.[RL30172]
1940–19441940 – Newfoundland, Bermuda, St. Lucia, – Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, and British Guiana: Troops were sent to guard air and naval bases obtained under lease by negotiation with the United Kingdom. These were sometimes called lend-lease bases but were under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.[RL30172]
1941 – Greenland: Greenland was taken under protection of the United States in April.[RL30172]
1941 – Netherlands (Dutch Guiana): In November, the President ordered American troops to occupy Dutch Guiana, but by agreement with the Netherlands government in exile, Brazil cooperated to protect aluminum ore supply from the bauxite mines in Suriname.[RL30172]
1941 – Iceland: Iceland was taken under the protection of the United States, with consent of its government replacing British troops, for strategic reasons.[RL30172]
1941 – Germany: Sometime in the spring, the President ordered the Navy to patrol ship lanes to Europe. By July, U.S. warships were convoying and by September were attacking German submarines. In November, in response to the October 31, 1941 sinking of the USS Reuben James, the Neutrality Act was partly repealed to protect U.S. military aid to Britain. [RL30172]
1941–45 – World War II: On December 7, 1941, the United States declared war against Japan in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On December 11, Germany declared war against the United States.[5]
1945–19491945 – China: In October 50,000 U.S. Marines were sent to North China to assist Chinese Nationalist authorities in disarming and repatriating the Japanese in China and in controlling ports, railroads, and airfields. This was in addition to approximately 60,000 U.S. forces remaining in China at the end of World War II.[RL30172]
1945–49 – Occupation of part of Germany.
1945–55 – Occupation of part of Austria.
1945–52 – Occupation of Japan.
1944–46 – Temporary reoccupation of the Philippines during World War II and in preparation for previously scheduled independence.[citation needed]
1945–47 – U.S. Marines garrisoned in mainland China to oversee the removal of Soviet and Japanese forces after World War II.[6]
1945–49 – Post-World War II occupation of South Korea; North Korean insurgency in Republic of Korea[7]
1946 – Trieste, (Italy): President Truman ordered the increase of US troops along the zonal occupation line and the reinforcement of air forces in northern Italy after Yugoslav forces shot down an unarmed US Army transport plane flying over Venezia Giulia..[citation needed] Earlier U.S. naval units had been sent to the scene.[RL30172] Later the Free Territory of Trieste, Zone A.
1948 – Jerusalem (British Mandate): A Marine consular guard was sent to Jerusalem to protect the U.S. Consul General.[RL30172]
1948 – Berlin: Berlin Airlift After the Soviet Union established a land blockade of the U.S., British, and French sectors of Berlin on June 24, 1948, the United States and its allies airlifted supplies to Berlin until after the blockade was lifted in May 1949.[RL30172]
1948–49 – China: Marines were dispatched to Nanking to protect the American Embassy when the city fell to Communist troops, and to Shanghai to aid in the protection and evacuation of Americans.[RL30172]
1950–1959Map of military operations since 1950
1950–53 – Korean War: The United States responded to the North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions. US forces deployed in Korea exceeded 300,000 during the last year of the active conflict (1953). Over 36,600 US military were killed in action.[RL30172]
1950–55 – Formosa (Taiwan): In June 1950, at the beginning of the Korean War, President Truman ordered the U.S. Seventh Fleet to prevent Chinese Communist attacks upon Formosa and Chinese Nationalist operations against mainland China.[RL30172]
1954–55 – China: Naval units evacuated U.S. civilians and military personnel from the Tachen Islands.[RL30172]
1955–64 – Vietnam: First military advisors sent to Vietnam on 12 Feb 1955. By 1964, US troop levels had grown to 21,000. On 7 August 1964, US Congress approved Gulf of Tonkin resolution affirming "All necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States. . .to prevent further aggression. . . (and) assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asian Collective Defense Treaty (SEATO) requesting assistance. . ."[Vietnam timeline]
1956 – Egypt: A marine battalion evacuated US nationals and other persons from Alexandria during the Suez Crisis.[RL30172]
1958 – Lebanon: 1958 Lebanon crisis, Marines were landed in Lebanon at the invitation of President Camille Chamoun to help protect against threatened insurrection supported from the outside. The President's action was supported by a Congressional resolution passed in 1957 that authorized such actions in that area of the world.[RL30172]
1959–60 – The Caribbean: Second Marine Ground Task Force was deployed to protect U.S. nationals following the Cuban Revolution.[RL30172]
1959–75 – Vietnam War: U.S. military advisers had been in South Vietnam for a decade, and their numbers had been increased as the military position of the Saigon government became weaker. After citing what he falsely termed were attacks on U.S. destroyers, in what came to be known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, President Johnson asked in August 1964 for a resolution expressing U.S. determination to support "freedom and protect peace in Southeast Asia." Congress responded with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Following this resolution, and following a communist attack on a U.S. installation in central Vietnam, the United States escalated its participation in the war to a peak of 543,000 military personnel by April 1969.[RL30172]
1960–19691961 – Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Hispanic America as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos (or Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Girón), was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
1962 – Thailand: The Third Marine Expeditionary Unit landed on May 17, 1962 to support that country during the threat of Communist pressure from outside; by July 30, the 5,000 marines had been withdrawn.[RL30172]
1962 – Cuba: Cuban missile crisis, On October 22, President Kennedy instituted a "quarantine" on the shipment of offensive missiles to Cuba from the Soviet Union. He also warned Soviet Union that the launching of any missile from Cuba against nations in the Western Hemisphere would bring about U.S. nuclear retaliation on the Soviet Union. A negotiated settlement was achieved in a few days.[RL30172]
1962–75 – Laos: From October 1962 until 1975, the United States played an important role in military support of anti-Communist forces in Laos.[RL30172]
1964 – Congo (Zaïre): The United States sent four transport planes to provide airlift for Congolese troops during a rebellion and to transport Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreigners.[RL30172]
1965 – Invasion of Dominican Republic: Operation Power Pack, The United States intervened to protect lives and property during a Dominican revolt and sent 20,000 U.S. troops as fears grew that the revolutionary forces were coming increasingly under Communist control.[RL30172] A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall Juan Bosch as the country's elected leader. The revolution is crushed when U.S. Marines land to uphold the military regime by force. The CIA directs everything behind the scenes.
1967 – Israel: The USS Liberty incident, whereupon a United States Navy Technical Research Ship was attacked June 8, 1967 by Israeli armed forces, killing 34 and wounding more than 170 U.S. crew members.
1967 – Congo (Zaïre): The United States sent three military transport aircraft with crews to provide the Congo central government with logistical support during a revolt.[RL30172]
1968 – Laos & Cambodia: U.S. starts secret bombing campaign against targets along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the sovereign nations of Cambodia and Laos. The bombings last at least two years. (See Operation Commando Hunt)
1970–19791970 – Cambodian Campaign: U.S. troops were ordered into Cambodia to clean out Communist sanctuaries from which Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacked U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in Vietnam. The object of this attack, which lasted from April 30 to June 30, was to ensure the continuing safe withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam and to assist the program of Vietnamization.[RL30172]
1972 – North Vietnam: Christmas bombing Operation Linebacker II (not mentioned in RL30172, but an operation leading to peace negotiations). The operation was conducted from 18–29 December 1972. It was a bombing of the cities Hanoi and Haiphong by B-52 bombers.
1973 – Operation Nickel Grass, a strategic airlift operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
1974 – Evacuation from Cyprus: United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.[RL30172]
1975 – Evacuation from Vietnam: Operation Frequent Wind, On April 3, 1975, President Ford reported U.S. naval vessels, helicopters, and Marines had been sent to assist in evacuation of refugees and US nationals from Vietnam.[RL30172]
1975 – Evacuation from Cambodia: Operation Eagle Pull, On April 12, 1975, President Ford reported that he had ordered U.S. military forces to proceed with the planned evacuation of U.S. citizens from Cambodia.[RL30172]
1975 – South Vietnam: On April 30, 1975, President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 U.S. citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones in and around the U.S. Embassy, Saigon and Tan Son Nhut Airport.[RL30172]
1975 – Cambodia: Mayaguez incident, On May 15, 1975, President Ford reported he had ordered military forces to retake the SS Mayaguez, a merchant vessel which was seized from Cambodian naval patrol boats in international waters and forced to proceed to a nearby island.[RL30172]
1976 – Lebanon: On July 22 and 23, 1976, helicopters from five U.S. naval vessels evacuated approximately 250 Americans and Europeans from Lebanon during fighting between Lebanese factions after an overland convoy evacuation had been blocked by hostilities.[RL30172]
1976 – Korea: Additional forces were sent to Korea after two American soldiers were killed by North Korean soldiers in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea while cutting down a tree.[RL30172]
1978 – Zaïre (Congo): From May 19 through June, the United States utilized military transport aircraft to provide logistical support to Belgian and French rescue operations in Zaïre.[RL30172]
1980–19891980 – Iran: Operation Eagle Claw, on April 26, 1980, President Carter reported the use of six U.S. transport planes and eight helicopters in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran.
1980 – U.S. Army and Air Force units arrive in the Sinai in September as part of "Operation Bright Star". They are there to train with Egyptian armed forces as part of the Camp David peace accords signed in 1979. Elements of the 101st Airborne Division, (1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry) and Air Force MAC (Military Airlift Command) units are in theater for four months & are the first U.S. military forces in the region since World War II.
1981 – El Salvador: After a guerrilla offensive against the government of El Salvador, additional U.S. military advisers were sent to El Salvador, bringing the total to approximately 55, to assist in training government forces in counterinsurgency.[RL30172]
1981 – Libya: First Gulf of Sidra incident, on August 19, 1981, U.S. planes based on the carrier USS Nimitz shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after one of the Libyan jets had fired a heat-seeking missile. The United States periodically held freedom of navigation exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, claimed by Libya as territorial waters but considered international waters by the United States.[RL30172]
1982 – Sinai: On March 19, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of military personnel and equipment to participate in the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai. Participation had been authorized by the Multinational Force and Observers Resolution, Public Law 97-132.[RL30172]
1982 – Lebanon: Multinational Force in Lebanon, on August 21, 1982, President Reagan reported the dispatch of 800 Marines to serve in the multinational force to assist in the withdrawal of members of the Palestine Liberation force from Beirut. The Marines left September 20, 1982.[RL30172]
1982–83 – Lebanon: On September 29, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of 1200 marines to serve in a temporary multinational force to facilitate the restoration of Lebanese government sovereignty. On September 29, 1983, Congress passed the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (P.L. 98-119) authorizing the continued participation for eighteen months.[RL30172]
1983 – Egypt: After a Libyan plane bombed a city in Sudan on March 18, 1983, and Sudan and Egypt appealed for assistance, the United States dispatched an AWACS electronic surveillance plane to Egypt.[RL30172]
1983 – Grenada: Operation Urgent Fury, citing the increased threat of Soviet and Cuban influence and noting the development of an international airport following a coup d'état and alignment with the Soviet Union and Cuba, the U.S. invades the island nation of Grenada.[RL30172]
1983–89 – Honduras: In July 1983, the United States undertook a series of exercises in Honduras that some believed might lead to conflict with Nicaragua. On March 25, 1986, unarmed U.S. military helicopters and crewmen ferried Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border to repel Nicaraguan troops.[RL30172]
1983 – Chad: On August 8, 1983, President Reagan reported the deployment of two AWACS electronic surveillance planes and eight F-15 fighter planes and ground logistical support forces to assist Chad against Libyan and rebel forces.[RL30172]
1984 – Persian Gulf: On June 5, 1984, Saudi Arabian jet fighter planes, aided by intelligence from a U.S. AWACS electronic surveillance aircraft and fueled by a U.S. KC-10 tanker, shot down two Iranian fighter planes over an area of the Persian Gulf proclaimed as a protected zone for shipping.[RL30172]
1985 – Italy: On October 10, 1985, U.S. Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking.[RL30172]
1986 – Libya: Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986), on March 26, 1986, President Reagan reported on March 24 and 25, U.S. forces, while engaged in freedom of navigation exercises around the Gulf of Sidra, had been attacked by Libyan missiles and the United States had responded with missiles.[RL30172]
1986 – Libya: Operation El Dorado Canyon, on April 16, 1986, President Reagan reported that U.S. air and naval forces had conducted bombing strikes on terrorist facilities and military installations in the Libyan capitol of Tripoli, claiming that Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi was responsible for a bomb attack at a German disco that killed two U.S. soldiers.[RL30172]
1986 – Bolivia: U.S. Army personnel and aircraft assisted Bolivia in anti-drug operations.[RL30172]
1987 – Persian Gulf: USS Stark was struck on May 17 by two Exocet antiship missiles fired from a Dassault Mirage F1 of the Iraqi Air Force during the Iran–Iraq War, killing 37 U.S. Navy sailors.
1987 – Persian Gulf: Operation Nimble Archer. Attacks on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf by United States Navy forces on October 19. The attack was a response to Iran's October 16, 1987 attack on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait, with a Silkworm missile.
1987–88 – Persian Gulf: Operation Earnest Will. After the Iran–Iraq War (the Tanker War phase) resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased U.S. joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf to protect them from Iraqi and Iranian attacks. President Reagan reported that U.S. ships had been fired upon or struck mines or taken other military action on September 21 (Iran Ajr), October 8, and October 19, 1987 and April 18 (Operation Praying Mantis), July 3, and July 14, 1988. The United States gradually reduced its forces after a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq on August 20, 1988.[RL30172] It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.[8]
1987–88 – Persian Gulf: Operation Prime Chance was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S.-flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – Persian Gulf: Operation Praying Mantis was the April 18, 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
1988 – Honduras: Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the (then socialist) Nicaraguans.
1988 – USS Vincennes shoot-down of Iran Air Flight 655.
1988 – Panama: In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented 10,000 U.S. military personnel already in the Panama Canal Zone.[RL30172]
1989 – Libya: Second Gulf of Sidra incident. On January 4, 1989, two U.S. Navy F-14 aircraft based on the USS John F. Kennedy shot down two Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean Sea about 70 miles north of Libya. The U.S. pilots said the Libyan planes had demonstrated hostile intentions.[RL30172]
1989 – Panama: On May 11, 1989, in response to General Noriega's disregard of the results of the Panamanian election, President Bush ordered a brigade-sized force of approximately 1,900 troops to augment the estimated 1,000 U.S. forces already in the area.[RL30172]
1989 – Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru: Andean Initiative in War on Drugs, On September 15, 1989, President Bush announced that military and law enforcement assistance would be sent to help the Andean nations of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combat illicit drug producers and traffickers. By mid-September there were 50–100 U.S. military advisers in Colombia in connection with transport and training in the use of military equipment, plus seven Special Forces teams of 2–12 persons to train troops in the three countries.[RL30172]
1989 – Philippines: Operation Classic Resolve, On December 2, 1989, President Bush reported that on December 1, Air Force fighters from Clark Air Base in Luzon had assisted the Aquino government to repel a coup attempt. In addition, 100 marines were sent from U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay to protect the United States Embassy in Manila.[RL30172]
1989–90 – Panama: United States invasion of Panama and Operation Just Cause, On December 21, 1989, President Bush reported that he had ordered U.S. military forces to Panama to protect the lives of American citizens and bring General Noriega to justice. By February 13, 1990, all the invasion forces had been withdrawn.[RL30172] Around 200 Panamanian civilians were reported killed. The Panamanian head of state, General Manuel Noriega, was captured and brought to the U.S.
1990–19991990 – Liberia: On August 6, 1990, President Bush reported that a reinforced rifle company had been sent to provide additional security to the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, and that helicopter teams had evacuated U.S. citizens from Liberia.[RL30172]
1990 – Saudi Arabia: On August 9, 1990, President Bush reported that he launched Operation Desert Shield by ordering the forward deployment of substantial elements of the U.S. armed forces into the Persian Gulf region to help defend Saudi Arabia after the August 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. On November 16, 1990, he reported the continued buildup of the forces to ensure an adequate offensive military option.[RL30172]American hostages being held in Iran.[RL30172] Staging point for the troops was primarily Bagram air field.
1991 – Iraq and Kuwait: Gulf War, On January 16, 1991, in response to the refusal by Iraq to leave Kuwait, U.S. and Coalition aircraft attacked Iraqi forces and military targets in Iraq and Kuwait in conjunction with a coalition of allies and under United Nations Security Council resolutions. On February 24, 1991, U.S.-led United Nation (UN) forces launched a ground offensive that finally drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait within 100 hours. Combat operations ended on February 28, 1991, when President Bush declared a ceasefire.[RL30172]
1991–96 – Iraq: Operation Provide Comfort, Delivery of humanitarian relief and military protection for Kurds fleeing their homes in northern Iraq during the 1991 uprising, by a small Allied ground force based in Turkey which began in April 1991.
1991 – Iraq: On May 17, 1991, President Bush stated that the Iraqi repression of the Kurdish people had necessitated a limited introduction of U.S. forces into northern Iraq for emergency relief purposes.[RL30172]
1991 – Zaire: On September 25–27, 1991, after widespread looting and rioting broke out in Kinshasa, Air Force C-141s transported 100 Belgian troops and equipment into Kinshasa. American planes also carried 300 French troops into the Central African Republic and hauled evacuated American citizens.[RL30172]
1992 – Sierra Leone: Operation Silver Anvil, Following the April 29 coup that overthrew President Joseph Saidu Momoh, a United States European Command (USEUCOM) Joint Special Operations Task Force evacuated 438 people (including 42 Third Country nationals) on May 3. Two Air Mobility Command (AMC) C-141s flew 136 people from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany and nine C-130 sorties carried another 302 people to Dakar, Senegal.[RL30172]
1992–96 – Bosnia and Herzegovina: Operation Provide Promise was a humanitarian relief operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars, from July 2, 1992, to January 9, 1996, which made it the longest running humanitarian airlift in history.[9]
1992 – Kuwait: On August 3, 1992, the United States began a series of military exercises in Kuwait, following Iraqi refusal to recognize a new border drawn up by the United Nations and refusal to cooperate with UN inspection teams.[RL30172]
1992–2003 – Iraq: Iraqi no-fly zones, The U.S., United Kingdom, and its Gulf War allies declared and enforced "no-fly zones" over the majority of sovereign Iraqi airspace, prohibiting Iraqi flights in zones in southern Iraq and northern Iraq, conducting aerial reconnaissance, and several specific attacks on Iraqi air-defense systems as part of the UN mandate. Often, Iraqi forces continued throughout a decade by firing on U.S. and British aircraft patrolling no-fly zones.(See also Operation Northern Watch, Operation Southern Watch) [RL30172]
1992–95 – Somalia: Operation Restore Hope, Somali Civil War: On December 10, 1992, President Bush reported that he had deployed U.S. armed forces to Somalia in response to a humanitarian crisis and a UN Security Council Resolution in support for UNITAF. The operation came to an end on May 4, 1993. U.S. forces continued to participate in the successor United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II).(See also Battle of Mogadishu)[RL30172]
1993–95 – Bosnia: Operation Deny Flight, On April 12, 1993, in response to a United Nations Security Council passage of Resolution 816, U.S. and NATO enforced the no-fly zone over the Bosnian airspace, prohibited all unauthorized flights and allowed to "take all necessary measures to ensure compliance with [the no-fly zone restrictions]."
1993 – Macedonia: On July 9, 1993, President Clinton reported the deployment of 350 U.S. soldiers to the Republic of Macedonia to participate in the UN Protection Force to help maintain stability in the area of former Yugoslavia.[RL30172]
1994 – Bosnia: Banja Luka incident, NATO become involved in the first combat situation when NATO U.S. Air Force F-16 jets shot down four of the six Bosnian Serb J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets for violating UN-mandated no-fly zone.
1994–95 – Haiti: Operation Uphold Democracy, U.S. ships had begun embargo against Haiti. Up to 20,000 U.S. military troops were later deployed to Haiti to restore democratically-elected Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from a military regime which came into power in 1991 after a major coup.[RL30172]
1994 – Macedonia: On April 19, 1994, President Clinton reported that the U.S. contingent in Macedonia had been increased by a reinforced company of 200 personnel.[RL30172]
1995 – Bosnia: Operation Deliberate Force, On August 30, 1995, U.S. and NATO aircraft began a major bombing campaign of Bosnian Serb Army in response to a Bosnian Serb mortar attack on a Sarajevo market that killed 37 people on August 28, 1995. This operation lasted until September 20, 1995. The air campaign along with a combined allied ground force of Muslim and Croatian Army against Serb positions led to a Dayton Agreement in December 1995 with the signing of warring factions of the war. As part of Operation Joint Endeavor, U.S. and NATO dispatched the Implementation Force (IFOR) peacekeepers to Bosnia to uphold the Dayton agreement.[RL30172]
1996 – Liberia: Operation Assured Response, On April 11, 1996, President Clinton reported that on April 9, 1996 due to the :"deterioration of the security situation and the resulting threat to American citizens" in Liberia he had ordered U.S. military forces to evacuate from that country "private U.S. citizens and certain third-country nationals who had taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy compound...."[RL30172]
1996 – Central African Republic, Operation Quick Response: On May 23, 1996, President Clinton reported the deployment of U.S. military personnel to Bangui, Central African Republic, to conduct the evacuation from that country of "private U.S. citizens and certain U.S. government employees", and to provide "enhanced security for the American Embassy in Bangui."[RL30172] United States Marine Corps elements of Joint Task Force Assured Response, responding in nearby Liberia, provided security to the embassy and evacuated 448 people, including between 190 and 208 Americans. The last Marines left Bangui on June 22.
1996 – Kuwait: Operation Desert Strike, American Air Strikes in the north to protect the Kurdish population against the Iraqi Army attacks.
1996 – Bosnia: Operation Joint Guard, On December 21, 1996, U.S. and NATO established the SFOR peacekeepers to replace the IFOR in enforcing the peace under the Dayton agreement.
1997 – Albania: Operation Silver Wake, On March 13, 1997, U.S. military forces were used to evacuate certain U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens from Tirana, Albania.[RL30172]
1997 – Congo and Gabon: On March 27, 1997, President Clinton reported on March 25, 1997, a standby evacuation force of U.S. military personnel had been deployed to Congo and Gabon to provide enhanced security and to be available for any necessary evacuation operation.[RL30172]
1997 – Sierra Leone: On May 29 and May 30, 1997, U.S. military personnel were deployed to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to prepare for and undertake the evacuation of certain U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens.[RL30172]
1997 – Cambodia: On July 11, 1997, In an effort to ensure the security of American citizens in Cambodia during a period of domestic conflict there, a Task Force of about 550 U.S. military personnel were deployed at Utapao Air Base in Thailand for possible evacuations. [RL30172]
1998 – Iraq: Operation Desert Fox, U.S. and British forces conduct a major four-day bombing campaign from December 16–19, 1998 on Iraqi targets.[RL30172]
1998 – Guinea-Bissau: Operation Shepherd Venture, On June 10, 1998, in response to an army mutiny in Guinea-Bissau endangering the U.S. Embassy, President Clinton deployed a standby evacuation force of U.S. military personnel to Dakar, Senegal, to evacuate from the city of Bissau.[RL30172]
1998–99 – Kenya and Tanzania: U.S. military personnel were deployed to Nairobi, Kenya, to coordinate the medical and disaster assistance related to the bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.[RL30172]
1998 – Afghanistan and Sudan: Operation Infinite Reach, On August 20, President Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack against two suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Sudan.[RL30172]
1998 – Liberia: On September 27, 1998, America deployed a stand-by response and evacuation force of 30 U.S. military personnel to increase the security force at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. [1] [RL30172]
1999–2001 – East Timor: Limited number of U.S. military forces deployed with the United Nations-mandated International Force for East Timor restore peace to East Timor.[RL30172]
1999 – Serbia: Operation Allied Force: U.S. and NATO aircraft began a major bombing of Serbia and Serb positions in Kosovo on March 24, 1999, during the Kosovo War due to the refusal by Serbian President Slobodan Miloševi? to end repression against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This operation ended in June 10, 1999, when Miloševi? agreed to pull out his troops out of Kosovo. In response to the situation in Kosovo, NATO dispatched the KFOR peacekeepers to secure the peace under UNSC Resolution 1244.[RL30172]
2000–2009[RL30172]
- 2008 – South Ossetia, Georgia: Helped Georgia humanitarian aid,[17] helped to transport Georgian forces from Iraq during the conflict. In the past, the US has provided training and weapons to Georgia.
2010–present- 2010–present - al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: The U.S has been launching a series of drone strikes on suspected al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab positions in Yemen.
- 2010–11 – Operation New Dawn, On February 17, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of September 1, 2010, the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be replaced by "Operation New Dawn". This coincides with the reduction of American troops to 50,000.
- 2011 – 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces.
- 2011 – Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear.
- 2011 – Drone strikes on al-Shabab militants begin in Somalia.[18] This marks the 6th nation in which such strikes have been carried out,[19] including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen[20] and Libya.
- 2011–present – Uganda: U.S. Combat troops sent in as advisers to Uganda.[21]
- 2012 – Jordan: 150 U.S. troops deployed to Jordan to help it contain the Syrian Civil War within Syria's borders.
- 2012 – Turkey: 400 troops and two batteries of Patriot missiles sent to Turkey to prevent any missile strikes from Syria.
- 2012 – Chad: 50 U.S. troops have deployed to the African country of Chad to help evacuate U.S. citizens and embassy personnel from the neighboring Central African Republic's capital of Bangui in the face of rebel advances toward the city.
- 2013 – Mali: U.S. forces assisted the French in Operation Serval with air refueling and transport aircraft.
- 2013 – Somalia: U.S. Air Force planes supported the French in the Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt. However, they did not use any weapons.
- 2013 – 2013 Korean crisis
- 2013 – Navy SEALs conducted a raid in Somalia and possibly killed a senior Al-Shabaab official, simultaneously another raid took place in Tripoli, Libya, where Special Operations Forces captured Abu Anas al Libi (also known as Anas al-Libi)[22]
- 2014–present – Uganda: V-22 Ospreys, MC-130s, KC-135s and additional U.S. soldiers are sent to Uganda to continue to help African forces search for Joseph Kony.[23]
- 2014–present - American intervention in Iraq: Hundreds of U.S. troops deployed to protect American assets in Iraq and to advise Iraqi and Kurdish fighters.[24] In August the U.S. Air Force conducted a humanitarian air drop and the U.S. Navy began a series of airstrikes against Islamic State-aligned forces throughout northern Iraq.[25][26]
- 2014 - 2014 American rescue mission in Syria: The U.S attempted to rescue James Foley and other hostages being held by ISIL. Air strikes were conducted on the ISIL military base known as "Osama bin Laden camp". Meanwhile, the bombings, Delta teams parachuted near an ISIL high-valued prison. The main roads were blocked to keep any target from escaping. When no hostage was found, the American troops began house to house searches. By this time, ISIL militants began arriving to the area. Heavy fighting occurred until the Americans decided to abandon the mission due to the hostages being nowhere in the area. Although the mission failed, at least 5 ISIL militants were killed, however 1 American troop was wounded. According the reports, Jordan had a role in the operation and that one Jordanian soldier had been wounded as well. This was unconfirmed.
- 2014–present - American-led intervention in Syria: American aircraft bomb Islamic State positions in Syria. Airstrikes on al-Qaeda, al-Nusra Front and Khorasan positions are also being conducted.
- 2014–present - Intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: Syrian locals forces and American-led coalition forces launch a series of aerial attacks on ISIL and al-Nusra Front positions in Iraq and Syria.
- 2014 - 2014 Yemen hostage rescue operations against al-Qaeda: On November 25, U.S Navy SEAL's and Yemeni Special Forces launched an operations in Yemen in attempt to rescue eight hostages that were being held by al-Qaeda. Although the operation was successful, no American hostages were secured. In the first attempt, six Yemenis, one Saudi Arabian, and one Ethiopian were rescued. On December 4, 2014, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threatened to execute the Somers if the U.S failed to the unspecified commands. AQAP also stated that they would be executed if the U.S attempted another rescue operation. On December 6, a second operation was launched. 40 U.S SEALs and 30 Yemeni troops were deployed to the compound. A 10-minute fire fight occurred before the American troops could enter where the remaining hostages (Somers and Korkie) were being held. They were alive, but fatally wounded. Surgery was done in mid air when flying away from the site. Korkie died while in flight, and Somers died once landed on the USS Makin Island. No American troop was killed/injured, however a Yemenis soldier was wounded.
- 2015 - April 30, 2015 U.S. sends ships to the Strait of Hormuz to shield vessels after Iranian Seizure of commercial vessel: The U.S. Navy deploys warships to protect American commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian interference. Concerns were also raised that Iranian gunships were trailing a U.S. container ship. Iran additionally fired shots over the bow, and seized, a ship registered in the Marshall Islands, part of a long-standing dispute between the two nations.[27]
- 2015-present - American military intervention in Cameroon
Battles with the Native Americans Main article: List of American Indian Wars See also: American Indian Wars and Indian massacres Relocation- Indian removal (1830s)
- Trail of Tears (1835–38)
- World War II-Era German-American internment (1942–45)
- World War II-Era Japanese-American internment (1942–46)
- World War II-Era Italian-American internment (1942–43)
Armed insurrections and slave revoltsSee also: Slave rebellion, Tax revolt
- Gloucester County, Virginia Slave Rebellion (1663)
- Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
- Leisler's Rebellion (1689–91)
- Stono Rebellion (1739)
- Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–66)
- War of the Regulation (1764–71)
- Boston Tea Party (1773)
- American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
- Shays' Rebellion (1786)
- Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
- John Fries' Rebellion (1799–1800)
- Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion (1811)
- Nat Turner's slave rebellion (1831)
- Buckshot War (1837–38)
- Patriot War (1837–38)
- Anti-Rent War (1839–44)
- Dorr Rebellion (1841–42)
- Taos Revolt (1847)
- Utah War (1857–58)
- John Brown's Raid on Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry (1859)
- American Civil War (1861–65)
- Green Corn Rebellion Oklahoma (1917)
- Battle of Blair Mountain West Virginia (1921)
- The Bonus March (1932)
- The Battle of Athens – also known as the McMinn County War. Uprising in Athens, Tennessee (1946)
- Jayuya Uprising – Puerto Rico (1950)
- Wounded Knee incident – Wounded Knee, South Dakota (1973)
Range wars See also: Range war- Franklin County War (Idaho, 1866–72)
- Mason County War (Texas, 1874–77)
- Colfax County War (New Mexico, 1875)
- Lincoln County War (New Mexico, 1877–78)
- San Elizario Salt War (Texas-Mexico borderlands 1877)
- Johnson County War (Wyoming, 1892)
- Pleasant Valley War (Arizona, 1886)
- Sheep Wars (Texas-New Mexico borderlands, 1879–1900)
- Posey War (Utah, 1923)
Bloody local feuds- Rowan County War (Kentucky, 1884–87)
- Hatfield–McCoy feud (West Virginia-Kentucky, 1878–91)
Bloodless boundary disputes- Toledo War (1835, Michigan Territory-Ohio)
- Aroostook War (1838–39, U.S.-Britain)
- Honey War (1839, Iowa Territory-Missouri)
- Oregon boundary dispute (1844–46, U.S.-Britain)
- Pig War (1859, U.S.-Britain)
- Chamizal dispute (1895–1963, U.S.-Mexico)
- Alaska boundary dispute (1907, U.S.-Canada)
- Red River Bridge War (1932, Oklahoma-Texas)
Terrorist, paramilitary groups and guerrilla warfare 18th and 19th century- Francis Marion (1780–82)
- Bleeding Kansas (1854–60)
- Wakarusa War (1855)
- Cortina Troubles (1859–61)
- Quantrill's Raiders (1861–63)
- Red Shirts Hamburg Massacre (1876)
- Ku Klux Klan (1877)
- Knights of the White Camelia
- White League (1874–)
- Coushatta massacre (1874)
- Colfax Riot (1874)
20th and 21st century- Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1911)
- Mass racial violence in the United States (1917; 1919; 1921; 1943; 1965; 1967, 1992)
- 1983 United States embassy bombing
- 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
- 1993 World Trade Center bombing[28] (February 26, 1993)
- Oklahoma City bombing (1995)
- 1998 United States embassy bombings
- USS Cole bombing (2000)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
Labor–management disputes Further information: Timeline of labor issues and events and List of strikes- Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Homestead Strike (1892)
- Pullman Strike (1894)
- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899
- Ludlow Massacre (1914)
- Battle of Blair Mountain (1921)
State and national secession attempts Further information: List of extinct states and Unrecognized historic regions of the United States- Westsylvania (1776)
- Green Mountain Boys (1777–91) (Vermont voluntarily entered the Union in 1791)
- State of Franklin (1784–90)
- Republic of West Florida (1810)
- Republic of Indian Stream (1832–42)
- Free City of Tri-Insula (1861)
- Confederate States of America (1861–65)
Riots and public disorder- Detroit Race Riot (1943)
- Watts Riots Los Angeles (1965)
- 1967 Detroit riot
- 1992 Los Angeles riots
Miscellaneous- Pennamite–Yankee War (1769–84)
- Oconee War (1784)
- Burr conspiracy (1804–07)
- Chesapeake–Leopard Affair (1807)
- Little Belt Affair (1811)
- Railroad Wars (1853–55)
- Sinking of the General Sherman (1866)
- Fenian raids (1866)
- Brooks–Baxter War (1873)
- Virginius affair (1873)
- Canal Zone Riots (1964)
- Kent State shootings (1970)
- War on Drugs (~1972–)
- Iran hostage crisis (1979–81)
- Iraqi attack on USS Stark (1987)
- Waco siege (1993)
Latter-day Saints- 1838 Mormon War
- Utah War (1857–58)
Republic of TexasAmerica FUCK YEAH!
Fuck you.
Wow, hell of a list
Not exactly nato, but not exactly not nato:
http://youtu.be/QphxGBXiA-M
Youll want to watch this.
Eagle Scout's honor...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkCEOSgLRt4
The U.S. has turned into the "Beast" we are supposedly fighting against.
We are the most dangerous country on earth.
Question: How do you tell the difference between a hospital and a terrorist camp ?
Answer: I don't know ,I just fly the drone
The U.S. has turned into the "Beast" we are supposedly fighting against.
We are the most dangerous country on earth.
As bad as this is it doesn't even come close to the collateral damage inflicted upon Japanese and German civilians in WW2.
I remember my Grandfather speaking fondly of the wiener roasts of his youth.
Aah, Dresden, Good Times
How about this. The neo-con-jobs AKA USSA murdered over 1 million people in Iraq alone. They found no "weapons of mass destruction" (their fake justification).
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
PS: Even if there were "weapons of mass destruction", that's no justification to invade, destroy and murder. If that was a justification, then the neo-con-jobs would have to first invade the USSA and destroy their own weapons of mass destruction.