List of countries USA has bombed since 1945

  • '17

    @Gargantua:

    This is exactly what I was hoping to see. People learning and enjoying thier OWN history! :P

    What makes you think I’m Indonesian?


  • I wonder how many nations the Taliban bombed?

    Probably like triple the list…


  • @Imperious:

    I wonder how many nations the Taliban bombed?

    Probably like triple the list…

    maybe change it to Al Qaida or Hamas.

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    @Imperious:

    I wonder how many nations the Taliban bombed?

    Probably like triple the list…

    Taliban? Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. Also, US and coalition-led troops when we (speaking of the US) were in Afghanistan hunting Osama Bin Laden.

    GG


  • They bombed IN:

    Spain
    France
    UK
    Italy
    US
    Russia
    and pretty much most every African and Middle-eastern nation


  • @Gargantua:

    I was thinking about this the other day… and started making a list of countries the USA has bombed since 1945.

    Someone was watching Battle Royal 2 weren’t they  :wink:

  • '12

    I agree with BJCard, I think some people confuse Taliban with Al Qaeda,  although I would not include Hamas, their activity is pretty much limited to Israel, although some Egyptian security forces have been killed by smugglers with probable Hamas connections in that little border skirmish last year.  I think it was GG who mentioned the three the Taliban has bombed, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.  If other countries have been bombed by the Taliban its news to me and I would require citation of this in order to believe the accuracy of those other claims.

    Garg, at least Canada had a part in those bombing missions, I am sure we made some components to those weapon systems.  My buddy machines parts for hellfire missiles and another machines parts for landing gear.  Talk about vicarious glory……

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    Canada builds the bombs, then the Americans deliver.

    I thought everyone knew that? ;)

  • 2024 2023 '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17

    Let’s add the United States to the list.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    @Herr:

    Let’s add the United States to the list.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

    I hate to be crude but… LOL, that was quite an ingenious plan.


  • @Herr:

    Let’s add the United States to the list.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

    Clever.

    Atleast they have bombed less countries then the amount they have invaded…

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    This was always a favorite of mine.

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  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    In the same vein as this stuff I would like to add a map (because lists take a long time.) Of countries with permanent US military bases.

    As well as a clip that I think sums up the whole US military bombing/occupying lots of different places around the world:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWVxI6XZAuE

    usbases200103.jpg

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    @rjpeters70:

    List is bullshit.  You going to offer any evidence?  Syria? Peru?  Nicaragua?~~  Kuwait~~ (so, liberating a country counts?  We hit Iraqi forces, not like we were at war with the Kuwaiti government)?  Iran?  Congo?  China?  Cuba?  Indonesia?  Come on…  This is trolling.

    Calling you out.

    China
    1999 in Belgrade, USA blows up chinese Embassy
    There were also attacks in 1945, 1945,  and during the Korean war 1950-1953 on China

    Cuba
    Oct 10th and 11th 1959

    Peru
    Peru was bombed by the U.S. in 1965 as a counter insurgency measure.
    “William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions since World War II, 2003”

    Indonesia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia

    Nicaragua
    Judgment of the International Court of Justice of 27 June 1986 concerning military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua: need for immediate compliance
    http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/41/a41r031.htm

    Kuwait
    You self explained.

    Shall I go on?

  • '17

    @rjpeters70:

    The part about us bombing Indonesia on Wikipedia is not referenced.  Other sections are, but not the assertion that we used a B-26 to bomb them.

    Seriously, read some peer reviewed books, take some classes.  Get out of the left wing fever swamp of conspiracies…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Lawrence_Pope
    Conboy, Kenneth; Morrison, James (1999). Feet to the Fire CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957–1958. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
    Kahin, Audrey R; Kahin, George McT (1997) [1995]. Subversion as Foreign Policy The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press

    That information is referenced elsewhere by reputable publishers.

  • '17

    Heck, the fact that a B-26 was shot down by Indonesia is even referenced in a June 1958 issue of Time magazine

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,868491,00.html

    I am not an online subscriber, so I can’t access the full-text, but just the opening clip reads:
    As the black B-26 turned out to sea after bombing the Indonesian port of Amboina, guns opened up from ground installations and government patrol boats in the harbor. The B-26 shuddered, and two men bailed out before it died in a splash of sea spray. One, an Indonesian rebel, was fished out of the water. The other got his parachute fouled in a palm tree on a coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen…

  • '17

    It can be interesting from a strategic and historical perspective. I’m a nerd about Cold War and Soviet history though.

    Not saying that’s why Gargantua started the thread  :lol:

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    I never posted the map, don’t be blaming me for things I had nothing to do with. :P

    And as stated before…

    @Gargantua:

    If I’m not mistaken, the U.S. supplied air support to french troops in Vietnam when it was still French.

    They almost provided nuclear support too under the name operation Condor.

    In regards to the validation of this thread…
    @wheatbeer:

    I am surprised about Indonesia … never heard about this before.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia

    This is exactly what I was hoping to see. People learning and enjoying thier OWN history! :P

    This thread was just a historical curiosity, but some people like playing the game “jump-to-conlcusions” more than they do Axis and Allies.

  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    @rjpeters70:

    Cuba:  Never heard of such a thing.  Got evidence?

    Ever heard of the Bay of Pigs, bro?

    @rjpeters70:

    Seriously, read some peer reviewed books, take some classes.  Get out of the left wing fever swamp of conspiracies…

    Also, what books are you referring to that are peer reviewed? Do you mean Journals? Because I believe those are often peer reviewed, but there is little, if any established academic system for reviewing books. Unless of course you were referring to compendiums of articles, or chapters in edited volumes, but those come almost entirely from peer-reviewed journals anyway.

  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    @rjpeters70:

    We’ve never fired on the People’s Republic of China.

    Korean War.

    You can take your own advice and take a class on North Asian history, or politics, or economics if you like, it will be covered in any of those.

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