This is a timeline of the United States military operations starting from 1950s until present date. The list of military operations is based on open sources. Dates show the years in which US government military units participated.
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1950: US forces stamp put an anti-colonial insurrection in Puerto Rico.
This is a timeline of the United States military operations starting from 1950s until present date. The list of military operations is based on open sources. Dates show the years in which US government military units participated.
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1950: US forces stamp put an anti-colonial insurrection in Puerto Rico.
1950 – 1953: The US wages the Korean War, one of the main Cold-War-era proxy conflicts between the US and the USSR.
1958: Operation Blue Bat. The US sends forces to Lebanon to intervene in a domestic conflict there.
1961: US Navy and Air Force back anti-Castro exiles in their attempt to invade Cuba by landing in the Bay of Pigs.
1964 – 1973: US forces wage a 'secret war' in Laos.
1964 – 1973: The US fights in Vietnam on the side of the South Vietnamese government. In the late 60s, its soldiers there numbered more than 500,000.
1969 – 1973: Operations Menu and Freedom Deal. US forces bomb and invade Cambodia.
1965 – 1966: Operation Power Pack. Invading US forces topple a revolutionary government in the Dominican Republic.
1982 – 1984: US forces take part in an international peacekeeping operation in Lebanon.
1983: Operation Urgent Fury. Invading US forces topple a left-wing government in Grenada.
1986: Operation El Dorado Canyon. US warships and jets bombard the Libyan capital Tripoli in response to an explosion in a Berlin disco.
1986 – 1988: US naval forces intervene in the Iran-Iraq war.
1989 – 1990: Operation Just Cause. US military invasion of Panama.
1989: US forces help Philippine President Corazon Aquino suppress an attempted coup.
1991: The First Gulf War. The US leads a UN-sanctioned international operation to liberate Kuwait from occupation by Iraq.
1992 – 1995: Operation Restore Hope. US forces take part in a UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia.
1994 – 1995: Operation Uphold Democracy. US forces conduct a UN-sanctioned operation to oust a military junta and restore a legitimate administration in Haiti.
1995: Operation Deliberate Force. NATO air forces bomb the Bosnian Serbs. Two thirds of the missions were flown by US air crews.
1998: Operation Desert Fox. US forces carry out air raids and rocket attacks against Iraq.
1999: Operation Noble Anvil (never sanctioned by the UN). US naval and air forces lead NATO’s air war against Federal Yugoslavia.
2001 – present: War in Afghanistan. Started in response to the 9/11 attacks.
2003 – 2011: Iraq war. US forces invaded under the pretext of derailing Iraq’s chemical warfare preparations.
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