Smithsonianmag.com offers a
map of the places in the world where the U.S. Military is engaging in
counterterrorism operations.
Less than a month after the
September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support
from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded
Afghanistan to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban. More than 17 years later, the Global
War on Terrorism initiated by President George W. Bush is truly global, with
Americans actively engaged in countering terrorism in 80 nations on six
continents.
This map is the most
comprehensive depiction in civilian circles of U.S. military and government
antiterrorist actions overseas in the past two years. To develop it, my
colleagues and I at Brown University’s Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute
for International and Public Affairs, along with Smithsonian magazine,
combed through U.S. and foreign government sources, published and unpublished
reports, military websites and geographical databases; we contacted foreign
embassies in the U.S. and the military’s United States Africa Command; and we
conducted interviews with journalists, academics and others. We found that,
contrary to what most Americans believe, the war on terror is not winding
down—it has spread to more than 40 percent of the world’s countries. The war
isn’t being waged by the military alone, which has spent $1.9 trillion fighting
terrorism since 2001. The State Department has spent $127 billion in the last
17 years to train police, military and border patrol agents in many countries
and to develop antiterrorism education programs, among other activities.
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