USA military interventions

It is with great sadness that my first post of a new year must once again contextualise violence in the world. Today I am seeing many social media posts blaming the current president, Trump, for the latest Usonian violence. This time it's a military incursion into Venezuela. Trump is a sociopathic puppet manipulated by darker forces... not even in the shadows but standing right there beside him. But in this case he is carrying on a long tradition of bullying by the USA.

Here is a short list of military interventions by that state, omitting both World Wars and the slaughter of the native peoples of North America. Drug-running, assassination, overthrowing elected leaders, bombing of suburban homes, mass murder of civilians, support of dictators, arming of fanatics, chemical warfare... the USA is a world-leader in all of these.

Afghanistan: 1979-92, 1998, 2001-2021
Albania: 1949-53
Angola: 1976-1992
Argentina: 1852-53, 1890, 1833, 1890
Bolivia: 1986-7
Bosnia: 1993-95
Brazil: 1961-64
British Guiana/Guyana: 1953-64
Cambodia: 1955-75
Canada: 1837
Caribbean (naval): 1806-10, 1814-25
Chile: 1891, 1964-73
China: 1843, 1856, 1859, 1866, 1894-95, 1900, 1911, 1922-34, 1945-49
Colombia: 1856, 1860, 1865-6, 1870, 1873, 1885, 1895, 1901-03
Congo: 1960, 1965
Costa Rica: 1921
Croatia: 1995
Cuba: 1822-25, 1898, 1906-09, 1912, 1917-33, 1961-62, etc.
Dominican Republic: 1903-04, 1914, 1916-24, 1963-66
Ecuador: 1963
Egypt: 1882
El Salvador: 1932, 1981-92
Fiji: 1840-41, 1858
France: 1798-1800
Germany: 1950s
Ghana: 1966
Greece: 1827, 1947-49, 1964-74
Grenada: 1979-84
Guam: 1898, 1903
Guatemala: 1920, 1953-54, 1966-67
Haiti: 1888, 1891, 1914-34, 1959, 1987-91, 1994-96, 2004
Hawaii: 1856, 1874, 1887, 1893, 1867 (Midway Island)
Honduras: 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924-25, 1982-90, 2009
Indonesia: 1957-58, 1965
Iran: 1946, 1953, 1980, 1984, 1987-88
Iraq: 1990-2011
Italy: 1947-48
Ivory Coast: 1843
Japan: 1854, 1863-4, 1868
Korea: 1871, 1894-96, 1904-05, 1950-53
Laos: 1962, 1971-73
Lebanon: 1958, 1982-84
Liberia: 1990, 1997
Libya: 1801-1805 (Tripoli), 1815 (Algiers and Tripoli), 1981-89, 2011
Macedonia: 2001
Marquesas Island: 1813
Mexico: 1806 (Spanish Mexico), 1836, 1842, 1846-48, 1859, 1876, 1913-18
Middle East: 1956-58
Nicaragua: 1854, 1857, 1867, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1907, 1910, 1912-33, 1978-90
Oman: 1970
Pakistan: 2004-?
Panama: 1902-3, 1908, 1912, 1918-20, 1921, 1925, 1958, 1964, 1989-90
Paraguay: 1859
Peru: 1835-36
Philippines: 1898-9, 1945-54, 1989
Portuguese West Africa: 1860
Puerto Rico: 1898, 1950
Russia: 1918-1922
Samoa: 1841, 1888-9, 1885, 1899
Somalia: 1992-94
South Korea: 1945-53
Spain: 1810-19 (Florida)
Sudan: 1998
Sumatra: 1832, 1838
Syria: 2014-present
Taiwan / Formosa: 1867
Turkey / Ottoman Empire: 1849, 1922
Uruguay: 1855, 1858, 1868, 1947
Venezuela: 2002, 2026
Vietnam: 1950-75
Yugoslavia: 1919, 1992-94, 1999
Zaire / The Congo 1960-65, 1996-97

Sources

William Blum. 1999. "A Brief History of U.S. Interventions: 1945 to the Present," Z Magazine, June 1999. online

Marc Becker. 2011. "History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America." online

Global Policy Forum. 2005. "US Interventions: US Military and Clandestine Operations in Foreign Countries - 1798-Present," December 2005. online