How much of your life has the United States been at war?

SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA, since I was born in 1956, the US fought a hot war in Vietnam from 1964 to 1975, the Cold War was waged in Europe and to a lesser extent the USA from before my birth until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. We have been at war since 2001 in OEF, OIF.
There were smaller engagements in Somalia, Grenada [1983], Panama [1989], Desert Storm [19911] which combined to less than one year, and varying degrees of military advisers through direct action in the former Yugoslavia [1995 to 1999] [Kudos to MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca for reminding me about Desert Storm]
So there have probably been 7 out of my 58 1/2 years where this nation has not been engaged in warfare somewhere. Therefore approximately 88% of my life the USA has been engaged in warfare of one type or another.

Counting the Cold War, which I do, we have been at war for 46 years of my life. Counting 10 years of Vietnam

Very thought provoking question!

Let's see

1967-1975 Vietnam
1983 Grenada, Beirut
1989 Panama
1991 Desert Storm
2001 to present GWOT

So that's 25-ish out of 48, give or take a battle or 2.

Add in the domestic wars on drugs, poverty and crime and that would make it 100%