Between 1991 and 2020, the United States averaged 8 military interventions each year. In the first three and a half years of the Biden-Harris administration, there have been at least 26.
According to the Congressional Research Service, a U.S. government institution that compiles information on behalf of Congress, they have documented another 218 U.S. military interventions between 1798 and 1990.
That makes for a total of 596 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 country in Latin America and the Caribbean and most of the African continent.
That number grew to 200 military interventions between 1991 and 2018.
From the beginning of 1991 to the beginning of 2004, the U.S. military launched 100 interventions, averaging over 15 per year (Bush, Clinton, Bush years) according to CRS.
Of the total 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 between 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.
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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The original intent of the Founding Fathers was that we keep out of foreign wars and entanglements. At this point, I would say we are emeshed.
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So right!! There is too much money for politicans to make by supporting wars.
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