List of military interventions of the United States

Clockwise, from top left: U.S. Marines battle in Hamo village during the Tet Offensive, extraction of troops after an airmobile assault, a burning Viet Cong base camp in Mỹ Tho, Vietnamese civilians killed by U.S. troops during the My Lai Massacre

United States' military actions and war crimes of violence against living persons that are unlawful under international law, from the First World War onwards.

War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including but not limited to "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devastation not justified by military, or civilian necessity".

Incidents in WWII involving desecration of Japanese remains, and other such non-military actions are not listed in the Timeline, but are linked in the See Also section.

The numbers dead are rarely large for regime change; comparisons between the importance of the dead and the loss of democratic and socialist governments are unlikely to be uncontroversial, but quite likely to be thought-provoking.

The USA engaged in more than 20 covert military actions designed to cause instability in governments in half century between the formation of the early incarnations of the CIA the end of the Cold War, the great majority involving the Special Activities Division (SAD) and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Central Intelligence Agency. During that period it mounted two full-scale invasions: the Korean and Viet Nam wars. The pace of its actions has increased, and the amount of overt actions increased since then; the US has engaged in closer to 30 military actions in the two decades since the end of the Cold War, and six full-scale invasions: the Gulf War, the invasion of Panama, the bombing of Yugoslavia, the Somali Civil War, the Iraq War, and the War in Afghanistan.

After the Cold War, the CIA's role changed significantly, and SAD and SOG forces were increasingly used in overt warfare, while covert regime change was more often carried out by the covert non-military divisions of the CIA, using destabilization techniques (propaganda, paid protestors, bribes, blackmail and threats of government officials, black propaganda and control of the press, etc).

One exception is the use of CIA drones in attacks on military leaders in Iraq, which was alluded to by Bob Woodward in a CBS interview Another is the ongoing, as of Feb 2011, covert assaults on Iraq by CIA squads begun by GW Bush (junior) and first reported in 2007.

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See Also

• United States of America
• Cold War covert overthrow of governments by the US
• Post-Cold War covert regime change by the US
• US military operations in the 20th and 21st centuries
• private military corporations
• Iranian coup d'état of 1953
• Imperialism Pool/History
• United States of America and state terrorism

• Wikipedia:List of war crimes
• Wikipedia:List of successful coups d'état

External links

• Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
• What People Are Saying - Not the Enemy
• Data from William Blum book, "Rogue State" supplemented by casulty data from various sources
• Statistics of American Genocide and Mass Murder - R. J. Rummel
• U.S. Interventions - 1945 to the Present William Blum
• Timeline of United States military operations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Covert U.S. regime change actions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890 by Zoltan Grossman