US Military Deployment World Wide

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.“ -- Reverend Martin Luther King

"Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." -- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader in Hitler's cabinet

"... how America 'manages' Eurasia is critical... Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources... Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to reach a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997, former US National Security Advisor and foreign policy advisor to U.S. Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama

"You're either with us or against us" -- U.S. President Bush. “I... reserve the right to act unilaterally” -- U.S. President Obama.

I first constructed this map when I was an undergraduate as an aid in understanding the larger flow of events which had precipitated the death of several close friends in yet another of humanity's meaningless wars.

Areas in RED represent countries or states where known US military bases and troops or contract mercenaries are currently located (total = 93% of the world's countries).
Areas in CRIMSON represent countries or states where particularly high numbers of known US military bases, force, or contract mercenaries are currently located.
Areas in GREEN represent countries or states where no known US military bases, force, or contract mercenaries are currently located.
Areas in MAUVE denote countries or states where internationally banned weapons have been allegedly used by US military against civilian populations
(Not represented: US navel, submarine, and space weaponry deployment)

Shock and Awe: US military world wide deployment

As adjunct to this map below are listed a few (not all) of the countries and/or peoples with whom the United States has been at war:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Britain, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cypress, Dafur, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timur, Egypt, El Salvador, Ecuador,Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Iceland, North America (against the Indigenous peoples), Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Martial Islands, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Numibia, Palestine, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, Santo Domingo, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Soviet Union, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Indies, Yemen, Yucatan, Yugoslavia, Zaire

Sources:
My purpose in presenting this map is the hope that you will search out detailed references for yourself as an insteresting historical exercise, using the list below as a starting point.
I would recommend beginning with Blum's work, and moving on from there to the others.

United States Department of Defense Base Structure Report
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (numerous reports)
United Nations Working Group on the Use of Meceneries
United States Department of Defense Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country
Amnesty International reports
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Médecins Sans Frontières
US General Accounting Office
US Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Foreign and Military Intelligence Final Report
Hearings before a US House Subcommittee of the Committee Appropriations (numerous years)
Various news feeds from non-western media
Directory of U.S. Military Bases Worldwide
Peace Corp. reports
Reports on War Crimes to the International Court
Reporters without boarders
International War Crimes Tribunal
Congressional Research Service
Blum's Rogue State
U.S. House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs
U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Use of U.S. Armed Forces in Foreign Countries
U.S. Congressional Record: Armed Actions Taken by the United States Without a Declaration of War
Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons
Noam Chomsky - numerous papers by Dr. Chomsky
Michael Parenti - numerous papers by Dr. Parenti
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees summary statistics
Federation of American Scientists reports on biological weapons
Note: Naval and air force deployments not included for obvious reason