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Study: U.S. has waged 400 wars since its founding in 1776
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Following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. emerged as the dominant military power globally.
A recent study shows that by 2019, the United States has engaged in almost 400 wars across the world since its founding in 1776.
From its founding in 1776 to 2019, the U.S. has undertaken almost 400 military interventions, with more than a quarter occurring in the post-Cold War period, the report found.
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. emerged as the dominant military power globally. However, this did not translate into a decrease in military interventions.
The U.S. military interventions “increasingly” target the Middle East and Africa, making up more than a quarter of the country’s campaigns throughout its history.
The first major study of its kind, titled Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on U.S. Military Interventions, 1776–2019, also found the post-9/11 era resulted in “higher hostility levels”, with U.S. military adventures becoming “overwhelmingly commonplace”.
“The cumulative impact of what we discovered from our data collection effort was indeed surprising,” said Sidita Kushi, an assistant professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, and one of the study’s authors.
“We hadn’t expected both the quantity and quality of U.S. military interventions to be as large as revealed in the data,” Kushi told Middle East Eye.
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Over the past two decades, the U.S. army has dropped a daily average of 46 bombs and missiles on the territories of other countries, said the study.
The "endless" wars, which Washington has whitewashed as "military operations, police actions or humanitarian inventions," are aimed at supporting "what seems to be one of the key pillars of the U.S., namely, the military industrial complex," the study said.
The country "deliberately" planned the wars, and was "calculated to maybe maximize sales of weapons," the report quoted Julius Mbaluto, a political analyst, as saying, hinting at the possible collusion between U.S. weapons manufacturers and foreign policymakers in promoting wars.
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