Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakamahia e te United States etahi taputapu hei wehe me te whiu i nga "rangatira kino". Ko ngā herenga ōhanga kaha, i te nuinga o te wā i runga i te whakahau a te kaunihera, i whakatakoto, i whakapakarihia rānei ki Iran, Libya, Cuba, Sudan, me Afghanistan. Whai muri i te mutunga o te Pakanga o te Moana-a-Kiwa i te tau 1991, i whakamahia e te United States te mana rererangi ki a Iraq mo nga tau i roto i nga rohe kore-rere o Iraqi kia akiaki ia ratou ki te whakatutuki i nga whakataunga rereke o te Kaunihera Haumaru o te United Nations mo te whakakorenga (arā, Resolution 687) me nga tika tangata (arā, Resolution 688). I whakaekehia ngā hōkai waka ki Afghanistan me Sudan hei whakautu mō
Ko ngā whakaeke kaiwhakatuma ki ngā karere o U.S. i Kenya me Tanzania i te marama o Akuhata 1998. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1999, i whakarewahia e te NATO he pakanga whakaeke rererangi nui ki a Yugoslavia hei whakautu ki te whakaekenga a te ope taua o Yugoslavia ki nga kaitiaki o te iwi Albanian i te kawanatanga o Kosovo.