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After the Iran–Iraq War (the Tanker War phase) resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased U.S. joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf to protect them from Iraqi and Iranian attacks.
The United States has been involved in 114 military conflicts. 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.)
This is a list of conflicts in the United States.Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history.This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars, skirmishes, wars of independence, liberation wars, colonial wars, undeclared wars, proxy wars, territorial disputes, and world wars.
Timeline of the War of 1812; Timeline of the War on Terror; Timeline of World War I; Timeline of World War I (1917–1918) Timeline of World War II (1941) Timeline of World War II (1942) Timeline of World War II (1943) Timeline of World War II (1945–1991)
United States Israel. 1998 1998 War in Abkhazia (1998) Part of the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict Abkhazia: White Legion. Mkhedrioni Forest Brotherhood. 1998 1999 Guinea-Bissau Civil War: Military rebels. MFDC [3] Supported by: United States Guinea-Bissau Senegal Guinea Supported by: France. 1998 2003 Second Congo War: Pro-government:
United States North Korea: 1966 1967 Ñancahuazú Guerrilla War Bolivia United States: National Liberation Army of Bolivia: 1967 1968 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran. Part of the Kurdish separatism in Iran. Iran: Kurdish tribesmen 1967 1975 Araguaia Guerrilla War: Brazilian military government: Communist Party of Brazil: 1967 1975 Cambodian Civil War
United States (allegedly) United Kingdom (covert) 2006 2008 Iraqi Civil War. Part of the Iraq War. Public stability: Iraq United States United Kingdom MNF-I Private Security Contractors Peshmerga Sons of Iraq. Sunni factions: Iraqi Ba'ath Party Loyalists. Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation; Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order; Ansar ...