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This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 121 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. [citation needed] These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
War in the context of this list is broadly construed to be a direct armed conflict between organized U.S. military forces and organized forces of (a) belligerent(s). (Note: Ongoing wars are indicated in bold and with red bars.)
2003–2011: War in Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 20, 2003, The United States leads a coalition that includes the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland to invade Iraq with the stated goal being "to disarm Iraq in pursuit of peace, stability, and security both in the Gulf region and in the United States."
February 25 – July 28, 1913 1913 Paterson silk strike; July 23, 1913 – April 13, 1914 Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914; August 3, 1913 Wheatland hop riot; September 23, 1913 – December 1914 Colorado Coalfield War. April 20, 1914 Ludlow Massacre; October 31 – November 7, 1913 Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913; 1914 – 1915 Bluff War
Second Barbary War; Second French intervention in Mexico; Sheep wars; Siberian intervention; Simba rebellion; Sixty Years' War; Somali Civil War (2009–present) War in Somalia (2006–2009) Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969; Spanish–American War; Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war; US intervention in the Syrian ...
In the early years of the British colonization of North America, military action in the thirteen colonies that would become the United States were the result of conflicts with Native Americans, such as in the Pequot War of 1637, King Philip's War in 1675, the Yamasee War in 1715 and Father Rale's War in 1722.
Many of the wars in this period were extensions of wars from continental Europe. This section does not include conflicts regarding Native Americans. 1701–1714 Queen Anne's War; October 7–18, 1702 Battle of Flint River; November 10 – December 30, 1702 Siege of St. Augustine; August 10 – October 6, 1703 Northeast Coast Campaign
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars: 2003–present