Joe Rogan Experience #2555 - Ron White · Aired Sep 16, 2026
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The United States has been in some sort of military conflict every year since 1945.
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The standard reference on this is the Congressional Research Service list of every instance U.S. armed forces were used abroad, and after 1945 it has five blank years: 1947, 1957, 1961, 1977 and 1979. So the run does not go back unbroken to 1945. The last gap was 1979, which means U.S. forces have been used somewhere abroad every year for more than four decades straight, so the broader point that America is almost always in some armed operation holds up even though "every single year since 45" overstates the record.
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Is it true that the United States has been in some sort of military conflict every year since 1945?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. S. armed forces were used abroad, and after 1945 it has five blank years: 1947, 1957, 1961, 1977 and 1979. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2555 - Ron White, aired Sep 16, 2026, at 1:17:23. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is everycrsreport.com, linked below.
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