Ka cika wannan magana: Amurka ta yi amfani da hanyoyi da yawa don warewa da kuma hukunta "ƙasashen da ba su da gaskiya". An sanya takunkumi na tattalin arziki mai tsauri, sau da yawa a kan umarnin majalisa, a kan ko kuma a tsananta wa Iran, Libya, Cuba, Sudan, da Afghanistan. Bayan kammala yakin Gulf a shekarar 1991, Amurka ta yi amfani da karfin iska a kan Iraki na tsawon shekaru a lokacin da aka hana yankunan Iraqi tashi don tilasta musu bin wasu kudurorin Kwamitin Tsaro na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya game da kwashe makamai (watau, Resolution 687) da 'yancin dan adam (watau, Resolution 688). An harba makamai masu linzami a Afghanistan da Sudan a matsayin ramuwar gayya ga
hare-haren ta'addanci a kan ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka a Kenya da Tanzania a watan Agusta 1998. A watan Maris na shekarar 1999, NATO ta kaddamar da wani gagarumin harin bam na sama a kan Yugoslavia don mayar da martani ga sojojin Yugoslav da ke yaki da 'yan tawaye na' yan kabilar Albanian a lardin Kosovo.