Section Five:
Other American Wars of Aggression
* This sections is for all the remaining wars of aggression. As should already be clear, America has a long habit of starting wars. As one author termed it, many Americans are Addicted to Militarism. The US being militarily strong and aggressive is a central part of the identity and personality of some Americans. There are some whose very masculinity is tied to a love of war.
* Yet clearly there are many good people who oppose most wars, or people who honestly think a war to be fought for the right reasons. Over the years, scholars have proposed a belief in Manifest Destiny or anti-Communism as the central reason for why most American wars were fought. Yet both those reasons are long gone, and American invasions keep happening.
* What most Americans do not know is the sheer scope of US invasions, that the American military has been ordered to invade other nations literally hundreds of times. This section tries to give the reader the broad view and ask which presidents invaded most often, why, and how many deaths resulted.