{"id":32755,"date":"2013-05-11T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/u-s-currently-fighting-74-different-wars-and-many-more-covert-wars\/32755\/"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T14:50:00","slug":"u-s-currently-fighting-74-different-wars-and-many-more-covert-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/u-s-currently-fighting-74-different-wars-and-many-more-covert-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars \u2026 And Many More Covert Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

And Many More Covert Wars Without Congressional Oversight \u2026 Let Alone Public Knowledge<\/span><\/h3>\n

Fire Dog Lake\u2019s Kevin Gosztola notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator, ask in a recent paper<\/a>, \u201cHow many wars is the US fighting today?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world\u2019s largest landlord<\/strong>, with significant military facilities in nations around the world, and with a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti,Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan<\/strong>, in addition to long-established bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and the UK<\/strong>. Some of these are vast, such as the Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar, the forward headquarters of the United States Central Command, which has recently been expanded to accommodate up to 10,000 troops and 120 aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Citing a page at US Central Command\u2019s (CENTCOM) website, they highlight the \u201careas of responsibility\u201d publicly listed:<\/p>\n

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The US Central Command (CENTCOM) is active in 20 countries across the Middle Eastern region, and is actively ramping-up military training, counterterrorism programs, logistical support, and funding to the military in various nations. At this point, the US has some kind of military presence in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, U.A.E., Uzbekistan, and Yemen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

US Africa Command (AFRICOM), according to the paper, \u201csupports military-to-military relationships with 54 African nations<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Gosztola points out that the U.S. military is also conducting operations of one kind or another in Syrian, Jordan, South Sudan, Kosovo, Libya, Yemen, the Congo, Uganda, Mali, Niger and other countries.]<\/p>\n

Altogether, that makes 74 nations where the US is fighting or \u201chelping\u201d<\/strong> some force in some proxy struggle that has been deemed beneficial by the nation\u2019s masters of war.<\/p>\n

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A Congressional Research Service (CRS) provides an accounting<\/a> of all the\u00a0publicly\u00a0<\/em>acknowledged deployments of US military forces<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But those are just the public<\/strong><\/em> operations.<\/p>\n

Gosztola notes that the covert operations are uncountable:<\/p>\n

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Beyond that, there are Special Operations forces in countries. Jeremy Scahill in\u00a0Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, writes, \u201cBy mid-2010, the Obama administration had increased the presence of Special Operations forces from sixty countries to seventy-five countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Scahill also reports, based on his own \u201cwell-placed special operations sources\u201d:<\/p>\n

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\u2026[A]mong the countries where [Joint Special Operations Command] teams had been deployed under the Obama administration were: Iran, Georgia, <\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on : Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n

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And Many More Covert Wars Without Congressional Oversight \u2026 Let Alone Public Knowledge Fire Dog Lake\u2019s Kevin Gosztola notes: Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator, ask in a recent paper, \u201cHow many wars is the US fighting today?\u201d Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}