Pearl Harbour and 9/11 (if 911 can be classed as a military attack) are the only instances that come to my mind, against which it seems the US is always in conflict somewhere on the globe. Am I mistaken?
2007-11-30 19:55:14 · 20 answers · asked by Yummy 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
So you think that the only time the US has the right to take military action is if she is attacked first? The only threats to the US are military attacks?
2007-11-30 20:01:21 · answer #1 · answered by Smoker06 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
These are your notable "soil attacks"
American Revolution, 1775-1783
War of 1812, 1812-1815
Mexican-American War 1845 (Only if you count Texas other than that not here)
Civil War 1861-1865
World War I, 1917-1919, Poncho Villa
World War II, 1941-1945, Pearl Harbor, Balloon Attacks, Submarine Shore Bombardment, and various sabotage groups.
9-11 2001.
Other Noteable Actual Soil attacks regarding US assets overseas, which is still considered US Sovereign Territory. I'm only counting overt attacks by foreign powers on known US Assets. This is not a complete listing!
Barabary wars 1800-1803
Britian US Sailor conscription late 1700's-1815 (This is what led to the war of 1812)
USS Maine 1898 (later ruled accidential explosion)
SS Lusitania
Gulf of Tonkin 1964
USS Pueblo 1968
US Iranian Embassy 1979
Libya on US CBG (F-14 shot down aircraft before launching missiles), and Barracks in Germany
Iran on US Surface ships 1988
Panama 1989, Noriega ordered shooting of US Citizens in Panama.
1990-1991 Iraqi mines in Arabian Gulf damaged several US Warships
1998 Bombing of US Emabssies in Africa
2000 USS Cole in Yemen
2004 Missile firings and US Warships in Israel
2007-12-01 01:18:30 · answer #2 · answered by Think for yourself 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Joan, he asked "militarily" on home soil, and for attacks on other. Just because the National Guard fired on some rioting coal miners doesn't make it an attack on America. The Battle of the Alamo wasn't an American war, that was part of a Mexican civil war, Texas broke off into an independant country as a result of it. They weren't annexed by the United States until the Spanish-American war. Should read that History book instead of just thumbing through the index for anything that sounds like a war...I'm too lazy to shoot most of them down.
2007-11-30 20:51:02 · answer #3 · answered by blackybirdy 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i think of the data exhibits that Bush has made us much less risk-free than earlier 9/11. we've had no terrorist assaults on our soil on account that 9/11 - actual, yet there have been many tried assaults and planned assaults that have been thwarted. Bush's own government tells us that those assaults have been thwarted by using great quantity of anti-terrorist protection and surveilance put in place on account that 9/11. we are spending billions greater on airport protection, utilising plenty greater wiretaps (criminal and unlawful), torturing suspects for techniques - all issues that have been not being performed almost as a lot earlier. If it became not for those efforts, our government says that a number of those tries could have been efficient. yet we've had those terroristic activities because of the fact of our government's conflict in Iraq. So, Bush reason a good number of recent threats and has had to in fact supply up maximum of our ideals to guard us from those threats. yet nonetheless, with all that protection that's basically a remember of time earlier we do get attacked. lower back, Bush's government has informed us this. At that element we can have no ideals and no protection, the two. great going, Bush.
2016-11-13 03:04:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually your wrong. Pearl Harbor was not on home soil. Pearl Harbor was just like what Japan is to us today. A place for our Navy to Dock back then. Hawaii did not become a state or part of America until August 21 1959 almost 19yrs after WWII. As to your question the only thing I can think of is The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) Brits vs. our 13 Colonies. Of course we declared our independence as a new nation, the United States of America in 1776. So you could argue that one since the war started in 75'
2007-11-30 20:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
i was a soldier in the us army. for 25 years.. what i can tell you is frightening. the USA has over the entire time i was in, acted in or caused so many innocent deaths for their own political needs and big business adventures.
the USA has not really ever been attacked on its own soil and pearl Harbour was not an American state till 1959..
i must admit when i went in to the army i was a naive kid. once i got out i realised why for so many years i had felt guilty for the things we did. up to and including the first Iraq and Somalia these being my last combats. everything we did was based on lies politics and the agenda for world domination by and for the USA.
from my experience in the military the USA has total policy of attacking all countries it may have and oil or mineral intrest to gain. it has a blatant policy of war to keep the USA on top for as long as possible. no matter the human cost.
the USA has killed more people that Hitler Stalin and Pol Pot put together
i once love that nation now i see it for what it is ( referring to Government only) a den of thieves liars murderers and power seeking tyrants not fit to breath honest peoples
the American people are a great and wonderful bunch. they are generous ,caring and Honourable. its a shame they fell for the hype and lies from their Pharaoh G W Bush-e-ses the inept.
give the Hildabeast Clinton a chance and the nukes will fly
2007-11-30 22:30:22 · answer #6 · answered by IHATETHEEUSKI 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
In modern times there was of course the Japanese attack on the Territory of Hawaii (No it wasn't a state but it was a U.S. possession the same as Hawaii). There was a battle of sorts in the Aleutians (Same status as Hawaii).
There were also Japanese hot air balloon bombs one of which exploded in Washington (I believe) killing a minister and his family. I suppose that would or more accurately could be considered the only attack on a state per se.
2007-12-01 07:30:11 · answer #7 · answered by John B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,
The War of 1812.
The Civil War
WWII as you mentioned
93 WTC bombing
As for the other wars, the US tried to stay out of WWI and WWII, but Europeans couldn't handle it themselves and the US reached a point where it was no longer possilbe to be left out of it.
The US didn't start Korea or Vietnam, those were started by Communists invasions and the US had to enter and things just grew from there.
US invaded Granada because Cuba invaded first.
US invaded Kuwait after Iraq invaded.
Most US conflicts have been in response to someone else invading actually.
2007-11-30 23:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by mnbvcxz52773 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Pequot War (1637)
Iroquois War (1642-1653)
King Philip's War (1675-1676)
King William's War a.k.a. The French and Indian Wars (#1) (1689-1697)
Queen Anne's War a.k.a. War of the Spanish Succession a.k.a. The French and Indian Wars (#2) (1702)
Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713)
Dummer's War a.k.a. Lovewell's War (1721-1725)
War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1742)
King George's War a.k.a. War of the Austrian Succession a.k.a. French and Indian Wars (#3) (1744-1748)
French and Indian War (#4) a.k.a. Seven Years' War (1754-1763, although some say 1756-1763)
American Revolution (1763-1789)
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
Tripolitan War (1801-1805)
War of 1812 (1812-1814)
Creek Indian War (1813-1814)
War against Algeria (1815)
First Seminole War (1817-1818)
Black Hawk War (1832)
Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
The Alamo (1836)
Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
The Caroline Affair (1837-1842)
Aroostock War (1838-1839)
Antirent War a.k.a. Helderberg War (1839-1846)
the Creole incident (1841-1842)
Dorr's Rebellion (1842)
Catholic riots in Philadelphia (1844)
War with Mexico a.k.a Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Wakarusa War (1855, 1856)
Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857)
The Civil War (1861-1865)
Irish riot of 1871 (1871)
Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)
Anti-Chinese Riots (1877)
Nez Perce war (1877)
Controversey of 1889 (1889)
Sitting Bull (1890)
mob in Valparaiso (1891)
miners riot (1894)
The Spanish American War (1898)
Philippine-American War (1899)
war with China (1900)
World War 1 (1917-1918)
World War 2 (1941-1945)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Vietnam War (1961-1973)
Persian Gulf War (1991)
World War 3
This list of wars is incomplete, since this area is still under construction.
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2007-11-30 20:16:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
well ever hear of the war of 1812? or hears another one for you how about the civil war the CSA attacked the USA up at a place called Gettysburg among others.
let's see the as for us attacking well all of our attacks have been reactions to a attack on the US, or a result of another country attacking one of our interests and we defend that interest. go read a book or two get some information first before drawing your conclusions.
2007-12-01 00:24:02 · answer #10 · answered by darrell m 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
During World War II, small parts of the Aleutian islands were occupied by Japanese forces, when Attu and Kiska were invaded in order to divert American forces away from the main Japanese attack at Midway Atoll. The U.S. Navy, having broken the Japanese naval radio codes, knew that this was just a diversion, and it did not expend large amounts of effort in defending the islands. A few Americans were taken to Japan as prisoners of war. Most of the civilian population of the Aleutians were interned by the United States in camps in the Alaska Panhandle. During the battle of the Aleutian Islands, American forces invaded Japanese-held Attu and defeated the Japanese, and subsequently regained control of all the islands.
2007-11-30 23:04:54 · answer #11 · answered by sablelieger 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋