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First overt US air strikes in Vietnam, retaliating for alleged attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin, escalating US involvement.
The US was deeply involved in Somalia in 1993. Initially, Operation Restore Hope was a UN-mandated humanitarian mission to address famine amid civil war, starting in December 1992, to secure aid delivery.
In 1999, NATO, led by the United States, conducted a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, primarily targeting Serbian military positions in Kosovo, starting on March 24. This campaign, known as Operation Allied Force, aimed to halt the Yugoslav government's crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
In August 1998, the United States launched missile strikes against a pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, and a training camp in Afghanistan. These attacks, codenamed Operation Infinite Reach, were in response to the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Korean War later led to the formation of North Korea and South Korea. During the War, the US, as part of the United Nations Command, conducted extensive bombing campaigns against North Korea.
Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the United States led a 42-country coalition to liberate Kuwait and counter Saddam Hussein's regime. The military phase, Operation Desert Storm, began with a massive aerial bombing campaign.
A covert CIA operation was organised that resulted in the overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. The US involvement in Guatemala included a US-backed coup in 1954, which involved air bombing and psychological warfare.
The United States invaded Grenada, a small island nation in the Caribbean. This intervention followed a coup where the Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard, overthrew and executed the previous leader, Maurice Bishop, who had ousted the socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
The United States conducted a series of bombing campaigns in Cambodia, initially under the covert Operation Menu, a covert bombing campaign targeting North Vietnamese and Viet Cong base areas and supply routes in eastern Cambodia. And later, under Operation Freedom Deal, as part of the broader Vietnam War effort.