From Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the US has had a military presence across the world, from almost day one of its independence. For those who have ever wanted a clearer picture of the true reach of the United States military – both historically and currently – but shied away due to the sheer volume of research required to find an answer, The Anti Media points out that a crew at the Independent just made things a whole lot simpler.
Using data compiled by a Geography and Native Studies professor from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, the indy100 team created an interactive map of U.S. military incursions outside its own borders from Argentina in 1890 to Syria in 2014.
To avoid confusion, indy100 laid out its prerequisites for what constitutes an invasion:
“Deployment of the military to evacuate American citizens, covert military actions by US intelligence, providing military support to an internal opposition group, providing military support in one side of a conflict, use of the army in drug enforcement actions.”
But indy100 didn’t stop there. To put all that history into context, using data from the Department of Defense (DOD), the team also put together a map to display all the countries in which nearly 200,000 active members of the U.S. military are now stationed.
For more details, click on the country:
The three countries with the biggest U.S. presence, according to DOD numbers, are Japan at 39,623, Germany at 34,399 and South Korea at 23,297.
The publication of the maps comes just after President Donald Trump announced the military would not be pulling out of its 16-year engagement in Afghanistan – a reversal of his previous stance – and that the U.S. would seek stronger ties with India to combat terrorism in South and Central Asia.
All to the glory of god of course
India has also refused to join OBOR (perceived as an ally by the U.S. against emerging empire of China) – has nothing to do with terrorism (swill for the population).
i’m just now hitting this thread so maybe nobody will come back here but if you do,have any of you been following the chinese/indian conflict going on?
it hasn’t gotten much attention but there have been several skirmishes between the 2 countries in the few weeks.
Two things the United States needs to do are get out of the U.N. and get out of NATO.
Neither of which are politically possible at this time.
It’s even worse than that.
Let’s say Country A bombs da Fuk outta Country B. No USA!USA!USA! involvement, right? Wrong. We are the world’s largest arms dealer. So, there’s a damned good chance Country A is using American weapons and/or munitions.
Amerika. No one can hide from us. No one is safe.
They hate us for our freedoms.
And this doesn’t include all of the behind the scenes chicanery of the CIA in assassinating leaders, assassinating candidates, buying/rigging elections, and the manipulations of the economies by the Federal Reserve or agents, and countless other criminal and morally reprehensible acts that have likely cost the lives of millions over the decades – all without one US military boot touching the ground.
Color the South because the USA invaded us.