Talk:Foreign interventions by the United States

message: In the section "After the Cold War" is using the Weekly Standard's statement calling "the most successful nation-building exercise by the United States in this century" appropriate?  This seems like the espousal of opinion by a clearly biased source and does not add to the information base at all.
:Yes, that certainly looks dodgy at first glance; I'll look over it later. Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:55, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Questionable Source

message: list-o-military history / overseas expansion / overseas intervention are three different things
Esmehwp 23:23, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But the List of United States military history events has sections on interventions, so this duplicates this.Ultramarine 23:29, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I think if you are going to merge the information you should be proactive and argue with the folks who think the information is article worthy in and of itself, e.g. talk to Travb.... Mrdthree 21:45, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The criticisms not being simply a list of interventions should be merged with the "Opposition to United States foreign policy" article. "Travb" has not objected since I started editing these article series, so he is probably retired.Ultramarine 21:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Both articles lists interventions (although the other one has sources). Much of the material here is simply a very incomplete duplication of the other article.Ultramarine 21:55, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Another editor have pointed out that the other article is a list, while this can have more detail. I think this is a good argument, so I will remove the merger proposal.Ultramarine 00:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Against- As I understand it, the Military Actions Overseas is exactly that, overt military actions by the United States, as admitted to by congressional reports. It does not include covert military, political and economic actions by the United States in foreign countries. Where for instance should US involvement in the 1954 overthrow of President Arbenz in Guatemala be listed?--David Barba (talk) 00:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No to mergers

message: It is difficult to tell exactly what happened to this article, other than Ultramarine removed huge amounts of material without discussion. However, I do prefer the current historic, rather geographic division of US interventions as it previously stood. As it stands, the article is currently a poorly written butchered stub. The Cold War section needs the most work, additions. There is extensive scholarly research on US interventions in the world (largely the Third World) since WWII (Cold War). I will shortly begin adding and hope others will join me in rewriting what should be a good and extensive article rather than this stub. I understand a lot of POV issues arise with this sort of subject, so let scholarly work be our bench mark.--David Barba (talk) 09:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've come up with a list of countries for US interventions during the Post-WWII/Cold War period. If anyone wants to help out with the leg work of writing bits for each country, feel free. I am sure I missed countries, not too up on my African Cold War history. I put question marks next to countries I am not certain of. Thanks--David Barba (talk) 21:53, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs Total Reworking

message: I reverted the article to an older version due to the massive deletions made by single user Ultramarine, the effect of which was a butchering of the article to a useless and void stub. The previous version has citation, writing style, and possible POV issues but it is a more fulling fleshed out text, easier from which to work with and improve rather than rewrite wholesale. I hope others assists in the task.--David Barba (talk) 00:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reversion

message: Why no mention? Chwyatt (talk) 09:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is the annexation of Hawaii? 

message: As of 2016-12-23, the article claims that the US frequently used the CIA to covertly interfere in the internal affairs of foreign countries, "starting under President Dwight Eisenhower."  The evidence for the US involvement in the March 1949 Syrian coup d'état is not as clear as for the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, but there seems to be universal agreement that (a) the US obtained approval for a pipeline that had been held up in the Syrian parliament, and (b) US officials had contact with the leader of that coup, Za'im, before it actually occurred.  Harry Truman was president in 1949.  
Given this, I think it's incorrect to claim that covert CIA interventions in foreign countries started "under President Dwight Eisenhower."  I will change this.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:36, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[March 1949 Syrian coup d'état]] 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article includes intervention in Mexico. Also 'of' -can- be read to mean 'interventions by others in the United States'. Suggested retitle: 'Foreign interventions by the United States'. Thoughts? Humanengr (talk) 06:07, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I Support this change in title.  This article is just over a decade old, which raises questions about the need to retitle.  However, I agree with User:Humanegr on this.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 07:53, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title needs work 

message: User:Tobby72 added . This is a useful addition, except that "Middle America" is ambiguous;  see the disambiguation page for that term.  When I first saw that term in this article, I thought "That's not the US Heartland."  
There may not be a better term, but this usage was something of a culture shock for me.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 18:46, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's "Middle America"? 

message: On 2019-02-18 User:78.127.114.12 deleted the following initial part of a paragraph:
:To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocideCohen, William (April 7, 1999). "Secretary Cohen's Press Conference at NATO Headquarters ". Retrieved August 30, 2011.Clinton, Bill (June 25, 1999). "Press Conference by the President ". Retrieved August 30, 2011. of Albanians by nationalist Serbians in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, 
The rest of that paragraph was retained, which is:  
:Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force. The CIA was involved in the failed 1996 coup attempt against Saddam Hussein.
The reason given was as follows:  
:Statements from the U.S administration are not sources for encyclopedical statements, especially when the sources are not even working.
I think the comments retained belong in this article, need citations, and the text deleted including citations that seem reasonable to me.  The citations deleted include an earlier version of URLs that no longer work followed by what appear to me to be successful attempts to rescue them.  
Accordingly, I'm reverting this deletion, apart from the URLs that no longer work.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 13:25, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  reverting questionable deletion re. US bombing the former Yugoslavia in 1999 

message: There are no interventions listed between 1918 and 1939. But see "Timeline of United States military operations".
Egarobar (talk) 21:12, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more listings between 1918 & 1939 

message: Why is there an entire section on this specific (arguably spurious) intervention? It really doesn't belong on this page: far too detailed for such a small incident in the scale of American interventions. I would certainly remove this, and simply replace it with a small blurb, linking to the main page on the incident.  ColonelJJHawkins (talk) 14:34, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lettergate?