US Launched 251 Military Interventions Since the Cold War Ended in 1991

....and 469 interventions since 1798

From Ben Norton at Geopolitical Economy

The United States launched at least 251 military interventions between 1991 and 2022.

This is according to a report by the Congressional Research Service, a US government institution that compiles information on behalf of Congress.

The report documented another 218 US military interventions between 1798 and 1990.

That makes for a total of 469 US military interventions since 1798 that have been acknowledged by the Congress. [Doug here: For further information, I’ve added a diagram of covert or overt CIA interventions. ie., bombings, Coup d’etats and assasinations since WWII. It’s dated 2004/2005 so you’d have to add a significant number of incursions/attacks since then. The US is war machine.]

This is just the beginning of US meddling in foreign countries, including a covert war with Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union and hellish interventions in the Middle East during the Obama/Hillary disaster. See “With WW III, 100s of Millions or Billions Will Suffer or Perish” That same post shows that the US/Nato involvement in Ukraine is just the latest proxy war that the US has fought with Russia. Except now, we’re risking nuclear conflict in the Ukraine.

AND YOU THOUGHT WE WERE THE GOOD GUYS??

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This data was published on March 8, 2022 by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), in a document titled “Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022.”

The list of countries targeted by the US military includes the vast majority of the nations on Earth, including almost every single country in Latin America and the Caribbean and most of the African continent.

From the beginning of 1991 to the beginning of 2004, the US military launched 100 interventions, according to CRS.

That number grew to 200 military interventions between 1991 and 2018.

The report shows that, since the end of the first cold war in 1991, at the moment of US unipolar hegemony, the number of Washington’s military interventions abroad substantially increased.

Of the total 469 documented foreign military interventions, the Congressional Research Service noted that the US government only formally declared war 11 times, in just five separate wars.

The data exclude the independence war been US settlers and the British empire, any military deployments between 1776 and 1798, and the US Civil War.

It is important to stress that all of these numbers are conservative estimates, because they do not include US special operations, covert actions, or domestic deployments.

The CRS report clarified:

The list does not include covert actions or numerous occurrences in which U.S. forces have been stationed abroad since World War II in occupation forces or for participation in mutual security organizations, base agreements, or routine military assistance or training operations.