It seems as though every major international conflict ends up involving the United States
at some point.
Whether through lawful warfare, protecting Americans abroad, or just outright invading
another country, the US has imposed itself in nearly every nation on earth.
In the last 25 years alone, the US has performed major military operations in more than a dozen
foreign countries.
Although the word “invasion” means different things to the military, legal experts, and
civilians, we’re going to use it to refer to times that the US armed forces have intervened
abroad for non-peaceful purposes.
So, which countries has the US invaded since The Cold War?
Now, strictly speaking, the only country to be invaded by the US in the last 25 years
was Iraq.
The 2003 invasion and occupation was not supported by the United Nations, and widely referred
to as “illegal.”
However, invasion can also apply to any encroachment of the US military in foreign countries, regardless
of support or excuse.
In 1990, Iraq’s President, Saddam Hussein, invaded neighboring Kuwait, and threatened
Saudi Arabia’s oil fields, sparking the first Gulf War.
In response, US president George H.W.
Bush sent roughly half a million troops into Iraq, and Kuwait.
The war ended up costing the US over $61 billion dollars.
During the early to mid 90s, the US invaded Bosnia and Kosovo to assist them through the
Yugoslav Wars.
Only the incursion into Bosnia was supported by the UN.
The end of the war, which saw ethnic cleansing and mass rape by the Serbs against Bosnian
Muslims, left a number of NATO and US forces in the country.
In 2001, following the events of September 11th, US Armed Forces invaded Afghanistan
to fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Then, in 2004, after the US’s unauthorized invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush
expanded anti-terror military operations.
According to a letter by the President, troops were sent to Georgia, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia,
Yemen, and Eritrea.
This included placing combat-armed forces in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Haiti as well.
In 2011, the US sent a covert team of Navy Seals into Pakistan to capture and kill terrorist
Osama bin-Laden.
Pakistan considered this a gross violation of international law and an act of war.
In the past five years, the US has ramped up its efforts in the Middle East while attempting
to fight against ISIS.
American troops have since been sent to Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Libya.
This was either to contain terrorist cells, intervene in civil war, gain strategic advantage
over ISIS, or train local soldiers.
In recent years, the US has also conducted military operations in Somalia, including
raids, against the terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
There are a number of other countries who’ve either requested military aid from the US,
or who’ve benefited from US led evacuations, such as in the Congo, Gabon, and Liberia.
In total, there are many dozens of countries who have seen US military action within their
borders since the end of the cold war.
The United States’ willingness to intervene in foreign affairs is a fiercely debated issue
in modern politics.
Over the last 25 years, the US’s repeat interventions raises the question: are they
doing more harm than good?
With the U.S invading so many countries in the past two decades, is it possible they
could spark the start of World War 3?
Check out this video from our friends at AllTimeConspiracies to find out.
For example, the United States of America are like old Britain, a declining superpower.
The USA’s main trading partner, China, is like imperial Germany, a country on the rise.
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