Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, W Bush, Obama, Biden, Trump…A mostly complete list of American CIA or military interventions since WW2. This does not count arms sales, foreign aide, covert surveillance, or cyber warfare:
Asia: Korea (1950–53), Iran (1953 coup), Vietnam (1954–75), Laos (1960s–70s), Cambodia (1969–70), Indonesia (1958/1965), Pakistan (drone strikes), Afghanistan (1998, 2001–2021), and Iran again.
Latin America & Caribbean: Guatemala (1954 coup, 1960s), Cuba (1961), Dominican Republic (1961, 1965), Chile (1973), Nicaragua (1980s), Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), Haiti, and now Venezuela.
Middle East & North Africa: Lebanon (1958, 1983), Libya (1986, 2011), Iraq (1991, 2003–2015), Somalia (1993, 2007-2011), Yemen (2002–2025), Syria (2014–2015).
Europe: Bosnia (1994–95), Yugoslavia (1999).
Africa: Congo (1964), Sudan (1998), Mali (2013), Niger (2013, 2017), Nigeria (2025-2026).
The US has a military presence in over 100 countries.
