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“U.S. launched
251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798.” By Ben
Norton (Posted Sep 16, 2022). Originally published: Multipolarista on September 13, 2022 (more
by Multipolarista). https://mronline.org/2022/09/16/u-s-launched-251-military-interventions-since-1991-and-469-since-1798/
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 U.S. government
institution that compiles information on behalf of Congress. The report documented another 218 U.S.
military interventions between 1798 and 1990.
That makes for a total of 469 U.S. military interventions since 1798
that have been acknowledged by the Congress. 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 U.S. military includes the
vast majority of the nations on Earth, including almost every single county in
Latin America and the Caribbean and most of the African continent.
From the beginning of 1991 to the beginning of 2004, the U.S.
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 U.S. 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 U.S.
government only formally declared war 11 times, in just five separate wars. The data exclude the independence war been
U.S. settlers and the British empire, any military deployments between 1776 and
1798, and the U.S. Civil War. It is
important to stress that all of these numbers are conservative estimates,
because they do not include U.S. 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. The report likewise excludes the deployment of the U.S. military
forces against Indigenous peoples, when they were systematically ethnically
cleansed in the violent process of westward settler-colonial expansion. CRS acknowledged that it left out the
“continual use of U.S. military units in the exploration, settlement, and
pacification of the western part of the United States.”
Credit: Military Intervention Project at Tufts
University
The Military Intervention Project at Tufts University’s Center for
Strategic Studies has documented even more foreign meddling.
“The U.S. has undertaken over 500 international military
interventions since 1776, with nearly 60% undertaken between 1950 and 2017,”
the project wrote. “What’s more, over one-third of these missions occurred
after 1999.”
The Military Intervention Project added: “With the end of the
Cold War era, we would expect the U.S. to decrease its military interventions
abroad, assuming lower threats and interests at stake. But these patterns
reveal the opposite—the U.S. has increased its military involvements abroad.”
Credit: Military Intervention Project at Tufts
University
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