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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 115 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.)
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. Part of the Vietnam War
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.
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:
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. [3] This is a list of wars that began from 2003 onwards. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity .
The origins of the U.S. military can be traced to the Americans' fight for independence from their former colonial power, Great Britain, in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The three bloodiest conflicts have been American Civil War (1861–1865), World War I (1917–1918), and World War II (1941–1945 for declared American ...