Korea/Vietnam- Invited by host governments Grenada- response to a coup d'e´tat with a multinational force Panama- technically Noriega declared a state of war

Korea/Vietnam- Invited by host governments Grenada- response to a coup d'e´tat with a multinational force Panama- technically Noriega declared a state of war first (not the brightest move) Desert Storm - response to Iraqi invasion/aggression Haiti - restore democratically elected president Bosnia- UN sanctioned response to Serbian aggression Afghanistan- response to Twin Towers - 9/11 aggression. The worst thing we did was actually trying to be 'virtuous' and nation build when we weren't wanted. Get in, decapitate government, make it clear we will rinse and repeat as necessary as long as they host terrorists, leave them alone, with maybe one air base to carry through on the threat if necessary. Iraq take 2- this is the most questionable one and definitely the most unwise one. Iraq/Saddam had continuously been aggressive post Deseret Storm and hadn't abided by peace terms, so in a legalistic sense, this was justifiable, from pretty much every other sense, moronic. Libya- National Transition Council was the recognized government at the time of Gaddafi's killing. Supporting any particular faction in the civil war before it played out though, was worse than useless. Killing of OBL in Pakistan - considering we started an invasion of Afghanistan over him, going after him on Pakistani soil seems rather mild. Generally it is a pattern of being the world's police and/or avenging attacks, not wars of aggression to capture territory. Now if you're talking Cold War CIA, then the list of nasty manipulations justified by fear of what the 'bad guys' were doing is a long and not defendable list...