I define peace as having NO combat operations outside of our own country in another soverign nation. I have been looking, and I cant find a single year we did not use our military SOMEHWERE in the world in the last 50 years. I havent managed to get much past that, but I am pretty sure I can carry this out to at least 100 years, and not find a single year we didnt conduct some for of agressive military operations outside our own borders.
Ya. Me either. No surprise there is no replies here. I dont think we have been at peace in the last 100 years that I can find.
Nice, you agree with yourself. 1977 1979 Of course, it helps if you give more definition, or restrict your definitions a bit more. For example, the US has been involved in a great many UN operations. 1974 Cyprus, 1975 USS Mayagues, when Cambodia siezed a US ship, 1976 when the US halped evacuate US and Europeans from Lebanon, heightened tensions in 1976 when North Korea killed 2 US soldiers when they tried to cut down a tree, 1980 when the US tried to rescue hostages held in Iran, again in 1980 when the Army deployed to assist in training the Egyptian military (part of the Camp David Peace Accords), 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident, when Libya attacked US aircraft, 1982 when the US participated in UN operations in the Sinai and Lebanon, 1985 when the US Navy forced to land the hijackers of the SS Achille Lauro, etc, etc, etc. I can continue, but I hope I have made a bit of a point here. In a great many years, the US is actually responding or just the attacked nation in these instances (Libya comes to mind, several times). In others, it is the US participating in a multi-national UN organized peacekeeping mission (and who else would respond to keeping 2 armed groups seperated, the Peace Corps?). Sorry, this is a lot of nonsense. In a lot of years, I see a single instance of "US Military Involvement", and it is often a single evacuation, a UN operation, or an attack on US forces. The reason nobody is likely answering is that they can tell your original argument is nonsense.
There are several years in fact. 1912-1914, 1923-1941. And Of course that is only for the US. For what it is worth one historian once posted that in his opinion since the dawn of Civilization some 8k years ago there have probably been no more than fifty years in whcih there was not a war going on somewhere or the other. I would add that those fifty years likely only exist because we don't have complete information for the entire world. Anthropological and arcleological studies suggest that among our first actions was to go to war against other human beings. Hell even Chimps out closest relatives war against each other tribe against tribe.
Warfare is part of human nature and always will be. As to the question of the thread I believe we were not conducting any military operations before Grenada under Reagan. I'm pretty sure that Carter never utilized our military on foreign soil.
Actually, we had US Marines in Lebanon since August 1982 as part of the UN Peacekeeping Forces. We also had (and still have) US forces participating in the UN Truce Supervision Organization (which patrols the various borders in the Middle East n order to try and prevent conflicts from breaking out). And there were others. the Gulf of Sidra Incident (August 1981, when 2 Navy Tomcats shot down Libyan MiGs after the Libyans fired heat seeking missiles at the US aircraft), and in March 1983 when Egypt asked for assistance after a Libyan plane bombed an Egyptian city. As you can see, every one of these incidents was part of either a UN operation, or in reaction after an attack by another nation.
13 years in the Navy and 2 years in the National Guard and there was always something I could volunteer to go to. In my 43 years of life I can't remember a single point we were not killing someone.
The least number of people vote the higher the chance of peace. People don't understand that their voting is causing all trouble in this world (look what the German people kept doing, voting) As soon as everybody stops voting the conflicts and wars will end, because the system has no more power.
