The CIA was involved in the failed 1996 coup attempt against Saddam Hussein. When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ . Japan's 35-year-old colonization of Korea was among the most short-lived as it was one of the last countries in the world to be colonized. [42][43][44], In 1961, the CIA sponsored the assassination of Rafael Trujillo, former dictator of the Dominican Republic. Dmitry Mosyakov, "The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists: A History of Their Relations as Told in the Soviet Archives," in Susan E. Cook, ed.. Chandler, David 2000, Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot, Revised Edition, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, pp. Nearly 100 attacks have occurred since 2009, according to estimates from the New American Foundation, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of militants, but also many civilians. 1953: Iran. Moreover, there were zero active duty . Only five countries, in orange, were spared: As you can see, just about every corner of the globe was colonized outright or was dominated under various designations like "protectorate" or "mandate . These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War, (1990-91), international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. [2]. Cambodia 1969-70. [126] The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found no substantial evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda[127] and President Bush later admitted that "much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong". The attack on major general Qassem Soleimani is just the latest in a 245-year history of American military conflicts. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The 19th century formed the roots of United States foreign interventionism, which at the time was largely driven by economic opportunities in the Pacific and Spanish-held Latin America along with the Monroe Doctrine, which saw the U.S. seek a policy to resist European colonialism in the Western hemisphere. The TLE shop is also now open, with all profits going to supporting our work. This catalogue derives heavily form the work of US academic Dr Zoltan Grossman's article From Wounded Knee to Libya : a century of U.S. military interventions [1], Gideon Polya's book Body Count. Why do you think that seed formed in the autumn do not grow until the following spring and why will seeds formed in dry weather not start to grow until there is rain? While the Russian invasion of Ukraine dominated headlines in early 2022 and the countries Germany invaded were a vital part of World War II, the United States has itself been an aggressor on many occasions. A 2016 study by Carnegie Mellon University professor Dov Levin found that the United States intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, with the majority of those being through covert, rather than overt, actions. Press J to jump to the feed. [citation needed] In 1973, Nixon authorized Operation Nickel Grass, an overt strategic airlift to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, after the Soviet Union began sending arms to Syria and Egypt. Iran has vowed harsh retaliation following a US air strike near Baghdads airport that killed its top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East. DISCLAIMER: The statements, views and opinions expressed in pieces republished here are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of TMS. Also, to stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide[90][91] of Albanians by nationalist Serbians in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of U.S. Armed Forces in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force. The Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940 would ultimately increase the size of the United States Navy by 70%. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 millionacres. Covert operations continued under President John F. Kennedy and his successors. Because there are many different definitions of what constitutes an invasion, no one list of countries the United States has invaded can be regarded as fully complete. One visible expression of this subversion is the presence of US forces in hundreds of bases around the world. A cowardly Australian Labor Party (aka the Australian Lackey Party) quickly realized that the only way top get back into office was to adopt a craven All the way with the USA position and leading Labor figures became intimate with the Americans. How many wars has the United States lost? How many countries has America invaded? America has invaded 70 countries since its 4th of July Independence Day in 1776. There was also speculation in The Washington Post that President Barack Obama issued a covert action, discovering in March 2011 that Obama authorized the CIA to carry out a clandestine effort to provide arms and support to the Libyan opposition. The World needs to declare a transition from the 4th of July as Independence for America Day to the 4th of July as Independence from America Day. . in Iran", "Billy Briggs on the atrocities of Guatemala's civil war", "ASSASSINATION PLANNING AND THE PLOTS A. CONGO", Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (1975), "Libertad y Desarrollo (LyD): VIOLENCIA POLITICA Nunca mas", "UNITA Uniao Nacional para a Independecia Total de Angola", "US Intelligence and the Polish Crisis 1980-1981. See also. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability, now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ . 1904: When European governments began to use force to pressure Latin American countries to repay their debts, 1906 to 1909: The U.S. governed Cuba under Governor, 1914: During a revolution in the Dominican Republic, the U.S. navy fired at revolutionaries who were bombarding, In 2013, the U.S. began providing transport aircraft to the, President Barack Obama deployed up to 300 U.S. troops to Cameroon in October 2015 to conduct, Four U.S. special operations soldiers and five Nigeriens were killed during an, "Empire" as a description of foreign policy, This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 02:29. Moreover, there were zero active duty military in June, in the Central African Republic, Georgia, Iceland, Luxembourg, Macao, Montenegro, the island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Swaziland. World War 2 (WWII) was the Second World War of the 20 th Century, but more so than the first, it was a global war. This was followed by more airstrikes on ISIL in Syria in September 2014,[137] where the U.S.-led coalition targeted ISIL positions throughout the war-ravaged nation. US military presence in Japan and South Korea. (1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013). As one map below shows, the US has a military presence in much of the world without being an occupying force (though some would dispute that definition). We only ask you to donate what you can afford, with an option to cancel your subscription at any point. In Operation Earnest Will, U.S. warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks during the IranIraq War. Both leaders were authoritarian dictators. section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Britain has invaded 193 countries - all but 10 of the world's 203 countries - and continues to illegally and criminally invade other countries for oil and hegemony. In 2010 extremely popular Labor PM Kevin Rudd raised the ire of the Americans by suggesting destruction of US- protected Afghan opium crops that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2000-2001 but restored by the US to 93% of world market share by 2007 and which have killed over 1 million people world-wide since 2001 (including 200,000 Americans, 50,000 Iranians, 18,000 British, 10,000 Canadians, 8,000 Germans and 4,000 Australians) [8]. After the war, American and Allied troops occupied both Germany and Japan. The 23 nations a Facebook meme says the United States has . [79][80] U.S. and UN forces later supervised free elections in Cambodia. According to these figures from the US Department of Defense, the US had 199,005 members of its military on active duty at that time. August marks the tenth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Georgia, a country of less than 4 million people in the South Caucasus. President Eisenhower also imposed embargoes on Cuba in 1958. Instances of the United States invading non-U.S. territory range throughout the country's history, from the 1805 Battle of Derna in what is now Libya to the 2001-2021 takeover and .