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Originally posted by Cupid
It must be an old map.
I saw this the other day though:
Is that true?  |
i'm not 100% sure but i don't think so. lemme think...
actually i think it depends on if you count fighting with native americans or not. a lot of people just consider that one ongoing occasional fight rather than a full-fledged war, especially since it's not with a foreign place. also, it depends on if you count wars where the US was just a minor participant rather than a big fighter (like a war outside of the country where there was less of a role than the world wars).
for major ones not with native americans, 1812-1815, 1846-1848, 1861-1865, 1898 (the spanish american war is like one of the biggest messes ever and it didn't even last a year), 1916-1918, 1941-1945, 1950-1953, 1961, 1965-1973, 1990-1991, 2001-2015
so that's...44 years of major wars, and a ton of more minor ones
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