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222 out of 239 years according to this:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-out-of-239-years-since-1776/5565946
So, 21 years not at war with someone.
Not sure about the UK.
Marvellous, isn't it?
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Thank you for finding something that substantiates my poor fading memory.
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21 years not at war with someone.
When was that? What happened?
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The 222 years thing is very much open to interpretation. If the US were known to use military personnel abroad in a year, that was deemed as being at war in that research.
If I am going to be really pedantic, war is a legal status and the US have only technically been at war a handful of times.
Edit: The only formally declared US wars were 1812, Spanish-American, Mexican-American, WWI, and WWII.
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'peacetime'.
Strange use of the word peacetime. I'm fairly certain I read an article, before the Iraq War, that showed that there was scarcely a month let alone a year when either UK or US troops weren't on active service somewhere, from 1945 onwards,
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that was before you accounted for covert operations or 'local' activities like Ulster.