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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-222-239-years-since-1776.html<snip>
In 2011, Danios wrote:
Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of Americas wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.
To put this in perspective:
* Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year.
* No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered war presidents.
* The U.S. has never gone a decade without war.
* The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1935-40) was during the isolationist period of the Great Depression.
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America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776 (Original Post)
malaise
Oct 2016
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Codeine
(25,586 posts)1. From an historical perspective much of those don't qualify as
anything like a war.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)2. Pax Americana
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)3. Back in 1964 I was told that I had to take that second year of ROTC which
I had requested not to do. I looked at the schedule and it included a history of US wars. I thought that might be interesting and I was in shock when I bought my textbook, it was like the table of contents of the article posted here. Boring.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)4. List of wars involving the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
(this is a link I keep handy)
(this is a link I keep handy)
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)5. You can probably list any major nation in human history
and find the same thing in the beginning and middle of its existence.
malaise
(269,157 posts)6. But did any of them call themself the global peacemaker?
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)7. I wouldn't doubt that they did in their own way
If America isn't exceptional, then it's not exceptional.