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Throughout the past century, the US army and the CIA have ensured the installation of submissive governments in many nations. In the army you can risk your life to continue this imperialist tradition.

In the early 20th century the US helped the Somoza family come to power in Nicaragua. In the 1960s , years of oppression by the Somoza regime resulted in the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) led Nicaraguan revolution. By 1979 the Sandinstas seized control of Nicaragua. Finding this unacceptable, the U.S. government sold weapons to Iran, and used the army to run drugs to fund anti-Sandinista operations.

In 1999 the U.S. and N.A.T.O. illegally involved themselves in the domestic affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. N.A.T.O.'s reason for intervention was to put an end to the inhumane actions of the Serbs against the Albanians. Critics argue that such actions are not authorized by the North Atlantic Treaty.

In the 1980s the CIA backed the Afghani Mujahideen, including Osama bin Laden, against the Soviet Union. After succeeding in driving the soviets out of Afghanistan in 1988, the country could not maintain a stable leadership until the Taliban came to power in 1996. In 1998 the US identified bin Laden as a significant terrorist threat even though it was fairly obvious - and potentially embarrassing - that they had funded much of his training. In 2001, the US government ignored intelligence suggesting that bin Laden was planning an attack on US soil. The infamous attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th of that year has given new license to the US for further uncriticized imperialist activities.