How many times has the US been attacked militarily on home soil and how many times has the US attacked others?

Smoker06

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?

BrianthePigEatingInfidel

War of 1812
Attacked on home soil

I would say the Berber wars were a response to Muslim attacks on our navy and merchant ships, even though it was not on our soil, it was an attack, unprovoked.

blackybirdy

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.

Submariner 1

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

thunor

Many years ago in the old west the mexicans attacked the alimo in texas.

mnbvcxz52773

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.

darrell m

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.

poolrepairguy

What kind or man waits for someone to come and kill women and children before he acts? U.S embassies are U.S. soil did you forget the 2 in africa or do they not count because they didn't affect you personally? We are in a war now for the simple reason that they thought we would do nothing but roll over and protest against war. It's ashame that the generation before us handled Vietnam the way they did because they left us with a country full of wimps who think if their not kicking down my front door or interupting my tv shows it's none of my business.

shitebird

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

JOAN C

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.
For further reading...

Thorgrim SkullbreakeR

you have to love these people blindly defending the US with little or no argument.

You are some of the most biased and unobjective people i have ever met in my life.

The question was fair, the US goes around flexing its military muscle accross the globe, and the SECOND that another country DARES to attack (pearl harbour) they react like a child whos had its lolly pop taken away..... then they go and drop an atomic bomb on innocent people. Brave souls indeed.

@JOAN C... were not looking for cut and paste links here.... asker, please get rid of this answer..... look, they even dated back to spanish invasions in the 1600's!!!! who do they think they are native american?!... HAHAHA! Also, 3/4 of the wars on the list never touched american soil.... vietnam war was in america! world war 1 was on american soil..... please. is this a joke list? or are you THAT ignorant?

true_facts

there is no place in this world for american nazi imperialism,they have killed more women and children since setting foot on red inidan soil, then even hitler did and the funny thing is they were all non white.

goonern014

the U.S has been in conflict with over 60 countrys since world war 3 . pearl harbour yes and the other 2 which dont really add up one little bit is the ochlahoma bombings and 9/11 . give this a watch tell ya more than u wanna know :
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598&q=loose+change+final+cut&total=176&start=20&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

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