A recent report by the United States Congressional Research Service details hundreds of overseas military deployments spanning more than two centuries. The scope of and justification for the deployments vary wildly, from conflicts with pirates and bandits to formal declarations of war against an array of sovereign nations.

Explore where, when and why US armed forces have been deployed using our interactive map of 200 years of US military interventions across the world …. for those who didn't know & those who have forgotten how many there’ve been.