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While recent international relations literature demonstrates an increased awareness of domestic variables to explain Presidential use of force, little attention has been given to the specification of what constitutes vital national interests. Since World War II, U.S., presidents have used military force to support foreign policy initiatives more than 200 times. This study examines the role that US financial interests--in the form of portfolio investment, foreign direct investment and bank lending--play in presidential decisions to use force abroad. In short, we ask whether troops follow financial interest. When the U.S. uses force abroad, is it concurrently increasing opportunities for U.S. investors? To analyze the relationship between U.S. use of force and investment, we examine U.S. instances of force projection since 1950 and subsequent US lending, portfolio investment, and foreign direct investment using panel data from 1950 through the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]