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Regular military interventions

1940s

• 1937 - present U.S. financial and military support of the Republic of China
• 1947 US provides military aid to government battling communist insurgents in Greece in 1947. (See Greek Civil War)

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1950s

• 1950-1953 Korean War. (See Korean War)
• 1945 - 1954 US funding support of French Indochina War (See French Indochina War 1951)
• 1955 - 1963 U.S. sends military advisors to assist President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. [1]

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1960s

• 1962 Overflights of Cuba, followed by naval blockade as part of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1964 Operation Brother Sam, military coup in Brazil support given by U.S. is provided but not needed. ^[2] [3] [4]
• 1964-75 Vietnam War
• 1965 Dominican Republic, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sends 20,000 U.S. troops. (See Dominican_Republic)
• 1968 US bombs the Ho Chi Minh trail (See Operation Commando Hunt)

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1970s

• 1974 - Mayagüez incident US Marines recaptured a vessel of the coast of Cambodia

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1980s

• 1982 - 1984 U.S. Marines are sent to Lebanon as part of the Multinational Force in Lebanon.
• 25 October 1983 US Invasion of Grenada (See Operation Urgent Fury)
• 18 April 1988 strikes against Iranian naval and air forces. (See Operation Praying Mantis)
• 1989 US invaded Panama and arrested Manuel Noriega. (See Operation Just Cause)

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1990s

• 1990s Intervention in Colombian civil war (See Plan Colombia)
• 1991 Gulf War
• 1992 US lead UN humanitarian relief for Somalia (See Operation Provide Relief and Battle of Mogadishu).
• 1995 NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs
• 1998 U.S.-led bombing campaign against Iraq (See Operation Desert Fox)
• 1998 US bombs Afghanistan and Sudan (See Operation Infinite Reach)
• 1999 NATO's bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo Conflict. (See Kosovo Conflict)

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2000s

• 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
• 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq

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Covert operations

1950s

• 1953 The CIA and British MI6, successfully orchestrates the removal of elected Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh. (see Operation Ajax) [5] [6]
• 1954: CIA-orchestrated overthrow of elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala (see Operation PBSUCCESS.)
• 1956 CIA aids Chushi Gangdruk and Tensung Dhanglang Magar's resistance movement. (See Plan for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet)
• 1958 Lebanon crisis of 1958

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1960s

• 1961 CIA involvement in the assassination of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. [7] [8] [9]
• 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba
• 1961 - 1962 CIA and Department of Defense covert plans and operations, The Cuban Project and Operation Northwoods
• 1962 - 1974 Secret War in Laos
• 1963 - 1964 CIA involvement in riots and violence in Guyana in order to undermine the Marxist People's Progressive Party and its leader, Cheddi Jagan.
• 1967 CIA-organized military operation ends in capture and execution of Che Guevara by the Bolivian Army.

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1970s

• 1970: US supported coup against Salvador Allende (See Chilean coup of 1973, Project FUBELT)[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15][16]
• 1975 US support for Mobuto Sese Seko, one of the three liberation groups in Angola
• 1979 - 1989 CIA support for the Contras. resolution. [17]
• 1979 - 1989: CIA support of mujahideen rebels in the Afghan-Soviet War.

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1980s

• 1981 US sends military advisors to El Salvador [18]
• 1987-1988 Escort of reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. (See Operation Earnest Will)
• 1987-1988 Covert anti-Iranian operations in the Persian Gulf. (See Operation Prime Chance)

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1990s

2000s

Other interventions

In addition to the operations listed above, the US has a very active foreign policy that uses various methods to influence events in other countries. These methods include President of the United States, George W. Bush (right) at Camp David in March 2003, hosting the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

• weapons sales
• military advice and training
• international loans
• economic sanctions
• development aid
• foreign broadcasting (e.g. Voice of America)
• grants to non-governmental organizations

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See also

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American empire This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Military history of the United States The Military history of the United States spans a period of less than two and a half centuries. ...

Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad Congressional Research Service report RL30172 From 1798 to 2004 there has been 311 instances of the employment of U.S. military forces abroad. ...

Notes

1. ^  (January 21, 1977) Castelo Branco and the CIA's war games. Brazil Latin America Political Report 3: 19. The day before the coup, the CIA sent a message to Washington saying: 'President Goulart will be removed, and quickly . . . oil is a problem, the communists have the control of ports and railways but not of the roads . . . the democrats will be dependent on the port of Vitoria, which they can control, to get oil'. It was thus that 'Operation Brother Sam' was thrown into action to provide logistical support. A navy task force was sent to the Brazilian coast, consisting of one aircraft carrier, six destroyers, one helicopter carrier and four oil tankers. Beside the oil, a hundred tons of arms and ammunition were also to be provided; See also: João Goulart#The Military Overthrow of Goulart

João Belchior Marques Goulart (March 1, 1918—December 6, 1976) was the last left-wing president of Brazil (1961–March 31, 1964) until the October 6, 2002 election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. ... João Belchior Marques Goulart (March 1, 1918—December 6, 1976) was the last left-wing president of Brazil (1961–March 31, 1964) until the October 6, 2002 election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. ...

External links

• A Hemisphere of Our Own: U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America - 2 Hours Talk Given by Noam Chomsky at UC Berkeley in 1984 - RealAudio format.
• Conversations with History: Militarism and the American Empire - With Chalmers Johnson, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute - RealVideo format.
• Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993 by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
• United States Military Campaigns, Conflicts, Expeditions and Wars Compiled by Larry Van Horn, U.S. Navy Retired
• Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism
• US interventions in Latin America
• US Military Interventions Since 1890: From Wounded Knee to Iraq - compiled by Geographer Zoltan Grossman
• When foreign intervention is justified: Women under the Taliban

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