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44 US Wars of Aggression Since 1945

Comment by Larry Ross, February 12, 2007

Professor Waddell gives a perspective on US policy toward smaller states since 1945. It is a matter of invoking the US war cry 'freedom and democracy' as a cover for invasion, regime change and setting up puppet regimes. The US "regularly brandishes the threat of recourse to "nuclear weapons" and Bush has been allowed to adjust US nuclear doctrines so that he can wage pre-emptive nuclear war, as well as introduce nuclear weapons into conventional conflicts.   One of the main keys to US policy "was part of the Truman Doctrine formulated in 1948 by George Kennan, Director of Policy and Planning at the U.S. State Department".  

He wrote:
    "We have 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.30% of its population....In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will allow us to maintain this position of disparity. We should cease to talk about the raising of living standards, human rights and democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."

Combine Kennan's Truman Doctrine, with the new nuclear war doctrines and the catch-all "wars on terror" and you have a powerful mix for the captive US mass media to drum into the heads of gullible Americans.That sums up  U.S. foreign policy as practiced by the Bush regime.

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The United States' Global Military Crusade (1945- )

by Prof. Eric Waddell , Global Research , February 11, 2007

The following article was first published by Global Research in 2003 in the immediate wake of the invasion of Iraq. It provides a useful historical perspective on what is now being described as America's "long war".


The United States has attacked, directly or indirectly, some 44 countries throughout the world since August 1945, a number of them many times. The avowed objective of these military interventions has been to effect "regime change". The cloaks of "human rights" and of "democracy" were invariably evoked to justify what were unilateral and illegal acts. 

The aim of the United States is to protect and reinforce national interests rather than to create a better world for all humankind. It is an "imperial grand strategy" of global dimensions designed to ensure unlimited and uninhibited access, notably to strategic resources, notably energy, and to markets. Rather than to establish a direct colonial presence, the preferred strategy is to create satellite states, and this requires constant, and often repeated, military interventions in countries around the world, irrespective of their political regime.  

Democratically elected governments are as much at risk as dictatorships. In recent years, the tendency has been for such direct interference to increase since less of these countries are prepared to act as willing allies. Indeed, events of 2003 would suggest that the number of unconditional and powerful U.S. allies is now reduced to three: Great Britain, Australia and Israel. The US strategy is characterised, wherever possible, by invasion and the setting up of friendly (puppet) governments. Attention is focussed, by preference, on relatively small and weak countries, the aim being to achieve rapid victory.

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