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Compare two wars Pick any two wars to set them side by side. Each column shows the war's era, period, scope, casualties, summary, and the spatial footprint of its battles on a small map. Pickers stay sticky so you can swap wars without scrolling.
Left column Pick a war… First Messenian War (-742--723) Messenian Wars (-742--453) Lelantine War (-709--649) Second Messenian War (-684--667) First Sacred War (-594--584) Greek-Punic Wars (-579--264) Greco-Persian Wars (-498--448) Ionian Revolt (-498--492) First Persian invasion of Greece (-491--489) Second Persian invasion of Greece (-479--478) First Peloponnesian War (-459--444) Peloponnesian War (-430--403) Corinthian War (-394--386) Social War of 357-355 BCE (-356--354) Samnite Wars (-342--289) Second Latin War (-340--337) Wars of Alexander the Great (-335--322) Lamian War (-322--321) Wars of the Diadochi (-321--274) Pyrrhic War (-279--274) Syrian Wars (-273--167) Chremonidean War (-266--260) First Punic War (-263--240) Punic Wars (-263--145) Kalinga War (-261--260) Qin's Wars of Unification (-229--220) Cleomenean War (-228--221) Second Punic War (-217--200) First Macedonian War (-213--204) Macedonian Wars (-213--147) Cretan War of 205-200 BCE (-204--199) Second Macedonian War (-199--196) Roman–Seleucid War (-191--187) Third Macedonian War (-170--167) Lusitanian War (-154--138) Fourth Macedonian War (-149--147) Third Punic War (-148--145) Numantine War (-142--132) First Servile War (-134--131) Servile Wars (-134--70) Cimbrian War (-112--100) Jugurthine War (-110--104) Social War of 91-87 BCE (-90--87) First Mithridatic War (-88--84) Mithridatic Wars (-87--62) Second Mithridatic War (-82--80) Third Mithridatic War (-72--62) Third Servile War (-72--70) Roman–Parthian Wars (-65-217) Gallic War (-57--50) Roman–Persian Wars (-53-628) Caesar's Civil War (-48--44) Liberators' Civil War (-42--41) Perusine War (-40--39) Final War of the Roman Republic (-31--29) Cantabrian Wars (-28--18) Great Illyrian Revolt (6-9) Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 (58-63) Jewish–Roman Wars (66-135) Year of the Four Emperors (68-69) Trajan's Dacian Wars (101-106) Marcomannic Wars (166-180) Yellow Turban Rebellion (184-205) Illyro-Roman Wars (229-167) War of the Eight Princes (291-306) Gothic War of 376–382 (376-382) Isaurian War (492-497) Basus War (494-534) Anastasian War (502-506) Iberian War (526-532) Vandalic War (533-534) Gothic War of 535–554 (535-554) Lazic War (541-562) Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591 (572-591) Goguryeo–Sui War (598-614) Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628 (602-628) Arab–Byzantine wars (629-1050) Ridda Wars (632-633) Muslim conquest of Persia (633-654) Muslim conquest of the Levant (633-640) Arab conquest of Armenia (642-744) Arab–Khazar Wars (642-799) Goguryeo–Tang War (645-668) Muslim conquest of the Maghreb (647-709) First Fitna (656-661) Umayyad campaigns in India (664-740) Jinshin War (672) Muslim conquest of Transoxiana (673-751) Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars (680-1355) Umayyad conquest of Hispania (711-726) Reconquista (733-1492) Third Fitna (744-747) Saxon Wars (772-804) Fourth Fitna (811-819) Anarchy at Samarra (861-870) Zanj Rebellion (869-883) Rus'–Byzantine War of 941–944 (941-944) Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria (967-971) Byzantine–Norman Wars (1039-1189) Byzantine–Seljuq Wars (1048-1308) Zenkunen War (1051-1063) Crusades (1095-1291) First Crusade (1096-1099) People's Crusade (1096) Swedish–Novgorodian Wars (1101-1300) Jurchen campaigns against the Song dynasty (1125-1300) The Anarchy (1135-1154) Second Crusade (1147-1149) Hōgen rebellion (1156) Heiji rebellion (1160) Genpei War (1180-1185) Third Crusade (1189-1192) Crusade of 1197 (1197-1198) Livonian Crusade (1198) War of the Antiochene Succession (1201-1219) Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) Mongol invasion of China (1205-1279) Mongol invasions and conquests (1206-1337) Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty (1211-1234) Fifth Crusade (1213-1221) First Barons' War (1215-1217) Mongol invasion of Central Asia (1216-1221) Prussian Crusade (1217-1274) Mongol invasion of Khwarazmian Empire and Eastern Iran (1219-1221) Jōkyū War (1221) Sixth Crusade (1228-1229) Barons' Crusade (1239-1241) Mongol invasion of Poland (1240-1241) Mongol conquest of Anatolia (1241-1335) Seventh Crusade (1248-1254) Venetian–Genoese Wars (1256-1381) War of Saint Sabas (1256-1270) Toluid Civil War (1260-1264) Scottish–Norwegian War (1262-1266) Second Barons' War (1264-1267) Byzantine–Ottoman wars (1265-1479) Eighth Crusade (1270) Ninth Crusade (1271-1272) War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282-1302) Aragonese Crusade (1283-1286) Lithuanian Crusade (1283-1410) First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1328) Byzantine Civil War of 1321–1328 (1321-1328) War of the Bucket (1325-1326) Genkō War (1331-1333) Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) Galicia–Volhynia Wars (1340-1392) Byzantine Civil War of 1341–1347 (1341-1347) War of the Breton Succession (1341-1365) Smyrniote crusades (1343-1351) Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars (1345-1393) Hook and Cod Wars (1350-1490) Castilian Civil War (1351-1369) Ottoman Wars in Europe (1354-1683) War of the Two Peters (1356-1369) Alexandrian Crusade (1365) Ottoman–Hungarian Wars (1366-1526) Savoyard crusade (1366-1367) Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379 (1373-1379) War of Chioggia (1378-1381) 1383–1385 Portuguese Interregnum (1383-1385) Lithuanian Civil War of 1389–92 (1389-1392) Barbary Crusade (1390) Ottoman–Venetian Wars (1396-1718) Jingnan Campaign (1399-1402) Ottoman Interregnum (1402-1413) Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435) Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411) Hunger War (1414) Hussite Wars (1419-1434) Lithuanian Civil War of 1432–1438 (1432-1438) Old Zürich War (1440-1446) Albanian–Venetian War (1447-1448) Flower War (1454-1519) Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466) Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) First Ottoman–Venetian War (1463-1479) Ōnin War (1467-1477) Burgundian Wars (1474-1477) War of the Castilian Succession (1475-1479) Mad War (1485-1488) Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars (1487-1583) Italian War of 1494–1495 (1494-1495) Italian Wars (1494-1559) Russo-Swedish War of 1495–1497 (1495-1497) Italian Wars of 1499–1504 (1499-1504) Second Ottoman–Venetian War (1499-1503) Swabian War (1499) War of the Succession of Landshut (1503-1505) Crimean-Russian Wars (1507-1572) War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516) Ottoman–Persian Wars (1514-1823) Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–17 (1516-1517) Revolt of the Comuneros (1520-1522) Italian War of 1521–1526 (1521-1526) Swedish War of Liberation (1521-1523) Knights' War (1522-1523) European Wars of Religion (1524-1697) Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526-1568) Ottoman–Habsburg Wars (1526-1791) War of the League of Cognac (1526-1530) Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528 (1527-1528) Ethiopian–Adal War (1529-1543) Inca Civil War (1529-1532) Ottoman-Safavid War (1532-1555) Count's Feud (1534-1536) Italian War of 1536–1538 (1536-1538) Third Ottoman–Venetian War (1537-1540) Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations (1538-1718) Italian War of 1542–46 Un penesote (1542-1546) Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) Italian War of 1551–1559 (1551-1559) Russo-Swedish War of 1554–1557 (1554-1557) Livonian War (1558-1583) French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) Northern Seven Years' War (1563-1570) Dutch Revolt (1568-1648) Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) First Russo-Turkish War (1568-1570) Russo-Turkish Wars (1568-1918) Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573 (1570-1573) Ottoman–Safavid War (1578-1590) Colonization of Siberia (1580-1700) Cologne War (1583-1588) Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) War of the Three Henrys (1587-1589) Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595 (1590-1595) Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) Long War (1593-1606) Nine Years' War (1593-1603) Polish–Swedish War of 1600-1629 (1600-1629) Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11 (1600-1611) Dutch–Portuguese War (1601-1661) Ottoman–Safavid War (1603-1618) Polish–Muscovite War (1605-1618) American Indian Wars (1609-1924) Beaver Wars (1609-1701) Invasion of Ryukyu (1609) War of the Jülich Succession (1609-1614) Ingrian War (1610-1617) Kalmar War (1611-1613) Uskok War (1615-1617) transition from Ming to Qing (1616-1683) Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) Polish–Ottoman War of 1620–1621 (1620-1621) Ottoman–Safavid War (1623-1639) Anglo-Spanish War of 1625–1630 (1625-1630) Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629 (1626-1629) War of the Mantuan Succession (1628-1631) Smolensk War (1632-1634) Polish–Ottoman War of 1633–34 (1633-1634) Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) Pequot War (1636-1638) Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1638-1651) Bishops' Wars (1639-1640) Portuguese Restoration War (1640-1668) Irish Confederate Wars (1641-1653) English Civil War (1642-1651) First English Civil War (1642-1646) Torstenson War (1643-1645) Cretan War of 1645-1669 (1645-1669) Fronde (1648-1653) Third English Civil War (1649-1651) Russo-Persian War of 1651–53 (1651-1653) Russo-Persian Wars (1651-1828) Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1784) First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654) Anglo-Spanish War (1654-1660) Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) Deluge (1655-1660) Second Northern War (1655-1660) Russo-Swedish War of 1656–58 (1656-1658) Dano-Swedish War (1657-1658) Austro-Turkish War of 1663–1664 (1663-1664) Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666-1671) War of Devolution (1667-1668) Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678) Polish–Ottoman War of 1672–1676 (1672-1676) Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674) King Philip's War (1675-1678) Scanian War (1675-1679) Second Russo-Turkish War (1676-1681) Great Turkish War (1683-1699) Polish–Ottoman War of 1683–99 (1683-1699) War of the Reunions (1683-1684) Morean War (1684-1699) Third Russo-Turkish War (1686-1700) Dzungar–Qing War (1688-1758) French and Indian Wars (1688-1763) King William's War (1688-1697) Nine Years' War (1688-1697) Second Hundred Years' War (1688-1815) Williamite War in Ireland (1689-1691) Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War (1714-1718) Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718 (1716-1718) War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720) Father Rale's War (1722-1725) Russo-Persian War of 1722–23 (1722-1723) Anglo-Spanish War of 1727–1729 (1727-1729) Ottoman–Persian War of 1730–1735 (1730-1735) War of the Polish Succession (1733-1735) Fifth Russo-Turkish War (1736-1739) War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) First Silesian War (1740-1742) Silesian Wars (1740-1763) War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743 (1741-1743) King George's War (1744-1748) Second Silesian War (1744-1745) Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745-1746) Carnatic Wars (1746-1763) French and Indian War (1754-1763) Guaraní War (1754-1756) Seven Years' War (1756-1763) Caucasian War (1763-1864) Pontiac's War (1763-1765) Russian–Circassian War (1763-1864) Burmese–Siamese War of 1765–1767 (1765-1767) Sino-Burmese War (1765-1769) Anglo-Mysore wars (1767-1799) First Anglo-Mysore War (1767-1769) Sixth Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) Danish–Algerian War (1769-1772) First Rohilla War (1773-1774) Dunmore's War (1774) American Revolution (1775–1783) First Anglo-Maratha War (1775-1782) Ottoman–Persian War (1775-1776) Cherokee–American wars (1776-1794) Spanish–Portuguese War of 1776-1777 (1776-1777) Anglo-French War of 1778–1783 (1778-1783) War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779) Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783) (1779-1783) Xhosa Wars (1779-1879) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784) Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784) Burmese–Siamese War of 1785–86 (1785-1786) Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) Prussian invasion of Holland (1787) Seventh Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 (1788-1791) Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 (1788-1790) Sino-Nepalese War (1788-1789) Theater War (1788-1789) Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-1792) Coalition Wars (1792-1815) French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) Polish–Russian War of 1792 (1792) War of the First Coalition (1792-1797) War in the Vendée (1793-1796) War of the Pyrenees (1793-1795) Australian frontier wars (1794-1899) Chouannerie (1794-1800) Anglo-Spanish War (1796-1808) (1796-1808) Italian Campaign of 1796-1797 (1796-1797) Persian Expedition of 1796 (1796) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799) Peasants' War (1798) Quasi-War (1798-1800) War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802) War of the South (1799-1800) Mexican War of Independence (1800-1821) Barbary Wars (1801-1815) English Wars (1801-1814) First Barbary War (1801-1805) War of the Oranges (1801) Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) Padri War (1803-1837) Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803-1805) Russo-Persian War of 1804–13 (1804-1813) Franco-Swedish War (1805-1810) War of the Third Coalition (1805-1806) Eighth Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812) War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807) Anglo-Russian War (1807-1812) Anglo-Turkish War (1807-1809) Gunboat War (1807-1814) Musket Wars (1807-1842) Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 (1808-1809) Finnish War (1808-1809) Peninsular War (1808-1814) Spanish American wars of independence (1808-1833) Bolivian War of Independence (1809-1825) War of the Fifth Coalition (1809) Anglo-Swedish War (1810-1812) Argentine War of Independence (1810-1816) Colombian War of Independence (1810-1825) Tecumseh's War (1810-1813) Venezuelan War of Independence (1810-1823) Egyptian–Wahhabi War (1811-1818) French invasion of Russia (1812) War of 1812 (1812–1815) Creek War (1813-1814) War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814) Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-1816) Argentine Civil Wars (1814-1880) Swedish-Norwegian War 1814 (1814) Neapolitan War (1815) Second Barbary War (1815) Portuguese Conquest of the Banda Oriental (1816-1820) Seminole Wars (1816-1858) Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818) Black War (1820-1832) Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820-1823) Texas–Indian Wars (1820-1882) Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) Ottoman–Persian War of 1821–23 (1821-1823) Peruvian War of Independence (1821-1824) Brazilian War of Independence (1822-1824) Anglo-Ashanti wars (1823-1900) Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 (1823-1825) Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824-1886) First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826) Cisplatine War (1825-1828) Java War of 1825-1830 (1825-1830) Russo-Persian War of 1826–28 (1826-1828) Chilean War of Independence (1827) War of the Aggrieved (1827) Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828-1829) Liberal Wars (1828-1834) Ninth Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) November Uprising (1830-1831) First Egyptian-Ottoman War (1831-1833) Siamese–Vietnamese War of 1831-1834 (1831-1834) Black Hawk War (1832) Carlist Wars (1833-1876) First Carlist War (1833-1840) Farroupilha Revolution (1835-1845) Second Seminole War (1835-1842) Texas Revolution (1835-1836) Toledo War (1835-1836) War of the Confederation (1836-1839) Kenesary Kasymov's Uprising (1837-1847) Aroostook War (1838-1839) Pastry War (1838-1839) First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842) First Opium War (1839-1842) Opium Wars (1839-1860) Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839-1841) Uruguayan Civil War (1839-1851) Siamese–Vietnamese War of 1841–1845 (1841-1845) Sino-Sikh War (1841-1842) Franco-Moroccan War (1844) War of Dominican Independence (1844-1856) First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846) Flagstaff War (1845-1846) New Zealand Wars (1845-1872) Mexican-American War (1846–1848) Second Carlist War (1846-1849) Caste War of Yucatán (1847-1901) Cayuse War (1847-1855) Sonderbund War (1847) First Italian War of Independence (1848-1849) First Schleswig War (1848-1851) Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1848-1849) Second Anglo-Sikh war (1848-1849) Apache Wars (1849-1924) Platine War (1851-1852) Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852) Crimean War (1853-1856) Sioux Wars (1854-1891) Nepalese-Tibetan War (1855-1856) Yakima War (1855-1858) Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857) Second Opium War (1856-1860) Indian Mutiny of 1857 (1857-1858) Reform War (1857-1861) Banjarmasin War (1859-1863) Hispano-Moroccan War (1859-1860) Pig War (1859) Second Italian War of Independence (1859) 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus (1860) Colombian Civil War of 1859–62 (1860-1862) American Civil War (1861–1865) Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1861–62 (1861-1862) occupation of Araucanía (1861-1883) Dakota War of 1862 (1862) Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863) Colorado War (1863-1865) Dominican Restoration War (1863-1865) Chincha Islands War (1864-1866) Overland Campaign (1864) Paraguayan War (1864-1870) Second Schleswig War (1864) Uruguayan War (1864-1865) Austro-Prussian War (1866) Fenian raids (1866-1871) Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) Third Italian War of Independence (1866) Boshin War (1868-1869) Ten Years' War (1868-1878) Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) Mokrani Revolt (1871-1872) Modoc War (1872-1873) Third Carlist War (1872-1876) Aceh War (1873-1904) Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874-1876) Red River War (1874-1875) First Serbian–Ottoman War (1876-1878) Great Sioux War of 1876 (1876-1877) Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1876–78 (1876-1878) Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876-1878) Nez Perce War (1877) Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878) Bannock War (1878) Nauruan Civil War (1878-1888) Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) Anglo-Zulu War (1879) Little War (1879-1880) War of the Pacific (1879-1884) Basuto Gun War (1880-1881) First Boer War (1880-1881) Mahdist War (1881-1899) Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Sino-French War (1884-1885) Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885) Samoan Civil War (1886-1894) First Franco-Dahomean War (1890) Chilean Civil War of 1891 (1891) Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892-1894) 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis (1893) First Matabele War (1893-1894) War of Canudos (1893-1897) First Italo-Ethiopian War (1894-1896) First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898) Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) Philippine Revolution (1896-1898) Second Matabele War (1896-1897) Benin Expedition of 1897 (1897) Greco-Turkish War of 1897 (1897) Banana Wars (1898-1934) Second Samoan Civil War (1898-1899) Spanish-American War (1898) Philippine–American War (1899-1902) Second Boer War (1899-1902) Thousand Days' War (1899-1902) War of the Golden Stool (1900) Saudi–Rashidi War (1903-1907) Herero Wars (1904-1908) Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Majimaji War (1905-1907) French conquest of Morocco (1907-1937) Second Melillan campaign (1909) Mexican Border War (1910-1919) Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912) Rif War (1911-1927) Balkan Wars (1912-1913) First Balkan War (1912-1913) Second Balkan War (1913) Second Thirty Years' War (1914-1945) World War I (1914–1918 (1917–1918 U.S. combat role)) Zaian War (1914-1921) Jungle Movement of Gilan (1915-1920) National Protection War (1915-1919) Russian Civil War (1917-1922) Soviet-Finnish wars (1917-1944) Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921) Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917-1921) Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918-1920) Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) Finnish Civil War (1918) Franco-Turkish War (1918-1921) Georgian–Armenian War (1918) Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920) (1918-1920) Hungarian-Czechoslovak-România War (1918-1919) Hungarian–Romanian War (1918-1920) Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918-1919) Lithuanian–Soviet War (1918-1919) Polish–Ukrainian War (1918-1919) Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) Kuwait–Nejd Border War (1919-1920) Polish–Czechoslovak War (1919) Polish–Lithuanian War (1919-1920) Polish–Soviet War (1919-1921) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) Franco-Syrian War (1920) Turkish–Armenian War (1920) Vlora War (1920) Irish Civil War (1922-1923) Paraguayan Civil War of 1922–1923 (1922-1923) Klaipėda Revolt (1923) Tatarbunary Uprising (1924) Nicaraguan Civil War of 1926–1927 (1926-1927) Chinese Civil War (1927-1950) Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) (1928-1929) Castellammarese War (1930-1931) Central Plains War (1930) Sino–Tibetan War (1930-1932) Chaco War (1932-1935) Colombian-Peruvian War (1932-1933) Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1932-1939) Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-1936) Austrian Civil War (1934) Saudi–Yemeni War (1934) Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1937) Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Slovak–Hungarian War (1939) Winter War (1939-1940) World War II (1939–1945 (1941–1945 U.S. combat role)) World War II in Albania (1939-1944) Franco-Thai War (1940-1941) Greco-Italian War (1940-1941) Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Continuation War (1941-1944) Eastern Front (1941-1945) Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (1941-1942) Seven Enemy Offensives (1941-1944) World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia (1941-1944) Italian Civil War (1943-1945) Lapland War (1944-1945) Cold War (1945-1991) Indonesian National Revolution (1945-1949) Soviet–Japanese War (1945) War in southern Vietnam (1945-1946) First Indochina War (1946-1954) Greek Civil War (1946-1949) Indochina Wars (1946-1989) 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (1947-1948) 1948 Palestine war (1947-1949) Cold War (1947–1953) (1947-1953) Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 (1947-1949) Kashmir conflict (1947) Myanmar conflict (1947) Paraguayan Civil War of 1947 (1947) 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948-1949) Costa Rican Civil War (1948) Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) La Violencia (1949-1958) Korean War (1950–1953 fighting; armistice unresolved) Cold War (1953–1962) (1953-1962) Algerian War (1954-1962) Dirty War (1954-2000) Jebel Akhdar War (1954-1959) First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972) Vietnam War (1955–1975 broad period; major U.S. combat 1965–1973) Suez Crisis (1956) Ifni War (1957-1958) 1958 Lebanon crisis (1958) Laotian Civil War (1959-1975) Angolan War of Independence (1961-1974) Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991) First Kurdish–Iraqi War (1961-1970) Kachin conflict (1961) Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974) North Yemen civil war (1962-1970) Sino-Indian War (1962) Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963-1974) Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963-1966) Sand War (1963-1964) Shifta War (1963-1967) 1964 Ethiopian-Somali Border War (1964) Mozambican War of Independence (1964-1974) Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979) Chadian Civil War of 1965–1979 (1965-1979) Dominican Civil War (1965) Guatemalan Civil War (1965-1996) Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (1965) South African Border War (1966-1990) Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975) Naxalite–Maoist insurgency (1967) Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) Six-Day War (1967) (1967) War of Attrition (1967-1970) Al-Wadiah War (1969) Hundred Hour War (1969) Sino-Soviet border conflict (1969) Years of Lead (1969-1982) Black September (1970-1971) Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (1971) First Yemenite War (1972) Yom Kippur War (1973) Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991) Second Kurdish–Iraqi War (1974-1975) Angolan Civil War (1975-2002) Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Third Indochina War (1975-1991) Western Sahara War (1975-1991) Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1977-1991) Libyan–Egyptian War (1977) Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992) Ogaden War (1977-1978) Afghan Conflict (1978) Chadian–Libyan War (1978-1987) Uganda–Tanzania War (1978-1979) Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) Second Yemenite War (1979) Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988) Paquisha War (1981) Second Mafia War (1981-1984) Somaliland War of Independence (1981-1991) Ugandan Bush War (1981-1986) 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982) 1982 Lebanon War (1982-1985) Casamance conflict (1982-2014) Falklands War (1982) Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) Agacher Strip War (1985) Cold War (1985–1991) (1985-1991) Iran–Israel proxy conflict (1985) South Lebanon conflict (1985-2000) South Yemen crisis (1986) Surinamese Interior War (1986-1992) Toyota War (1986-1987) Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1987) Bougainville conflict (1988-1998) First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994) Afghan Civil War (1989-1992) (1989-1992) First Liberian Civil War (1989-1997) Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1989) Gulf War (1990–1991) Rwandan Civil War (1990-1993) Transnistria War (1990-1992) 1991-92 Georgian coup d'état (1991-1992) 1991–1992 South Ossetia War (1991-1992) Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995) Djiboutian Civil War (1991-1994) Georgian Civil War (1991-1993) Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002) Somali Civil War (1991) (1991) Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) Afghan Civil War (1992-1996) (1992-1996) Algerian Civil War (1992-2002) Croat–Bosniak War (1992-1994) Tajikistani Civil War (1992-1997) War in Abkhazia (1992-1993) Burundi Civil War (1993-2005) 1994 Summer War (1994) First Chechen War (1994-1996) Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994-1997) Cenepa War (1995) Afghan Civil War (1996-2001) (1996-2001) First Congo War (1996-1997) Nepalese Civil War (1996-2006) Republic of the Congo civil war (1997-1999) 1998 War in Abkhazia (1998) Bissau-Guinean Civil War (1998-1999) Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998-2000) Kosovo War (1998-1999) Second Congo War (1998-2003) Kargil War (1999) Second Chechen War (1999-2009) Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) War of Dagestan (1999) Six-Day War (2000) (2000) Afghanistan War (2001–2021 major U.S. war period) War on Terrorism (2001-2021) First Ivorian Civil War (2002-2007) Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002) conflict in the Niger Delta (2003) Iraq War (2003–2011 major U.S. combat/occupation period) Iraqi conflict (2003-2017) Central African Republic Bush War (2004-2007) drone strikes in Pakistan (2004) insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2004) Kivu conflict (2004) Chad–Sudan Conflict (2005-2010) 2006 Lebanon War (2006) Iraqi Civil War of 2006–2008 (2006-2008) Mexican drug war (2006) War in Somalia (2006-2009) 2007 Lebanon conflict (2007) Insurgency in Ingushetia (2007-2015) Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict (2008) Gaza War (2008–2009) (2008-2009) Russo-Georgian War (2008) Somali Civil War (2009) (2009) Arab Spring (2010-2012) Second Ivorian Civil War (2010-2011) Libyan Civil War (2011) (2011) Libyan crisis (2011) spillover of the Syrian Civil War (2011) Syrian Civil War (2011) Syrian revolution (2011-2012) War in the Sahel (2011) Arab Winter (2012-2018) Central African Republic Civil War (2012-2013) Mali War (2012) South Sudanese Civil War (2013-2020) Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017 (2014-2017) Libyan Civil War (2014-2020) (2014-2020) Russo-Ukrainian War (2014) Yemeni Civil War (2014) Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso (2015) Ngogo Chimpanzee War (2015) War in Afghanistan (2015–2021) (2015-2021) Insurgency in Northern Chad (2016) 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (2017) 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes (2018) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (2020) Myanmar Civil War (2021) full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war (2022) Gaza War (2023) Sudanese civil war (2023) 2024 Lebanon War (2024) Operation Rising Lion (2025) Twelve-Day War (2025) Right column Pick a war… First Messenian War (-742--723) Messenian Wars (-742--453) Lelantine War (-709--649) Second Messenian War (-684--667) First Sacred War (-594--584) Greek-Punic Wars (-579--264) Greco-Persian Wars (-498--448) Ionian Revolt (-498--492) First Persian invasion of Greece (-491--489) Second Persian invasion of Greece (-479--478) First Peloponnesian War (-459--444) Peloponnesian War (-430--403) Corinthian War (-394--386) Social War of 357-355 BCE (-356--354) Samnite Wars (-342--289) Second Latin War (-340--337) Wars of Alexander the Great (-335--322) Lamian War (-322--321) Wars of the Diadochi (-321--274) Pyrrhic War (-279--274) Syrian Wars (-273--167) Chremonidean War (-266--260) First Punic War (-263--240) Punic Wars (-263--145) Kalinga War (-261--260) Qin's Wars of Unification (-229--220) Cleomenean War (-228--221) Second Punic War (-217--200) First Macedonian War (-213--204) Macedonian Wars (-213--147) Cretan War of 205-200 BCE (-204--199) Second Macedonian War (-199--196) Roman–Seleucid War (-191--187) Third Macedonian War (-170--167) Lusitanian War (-154--138) Fourth Macedonian War (-149--147) Third Punic War (-148--145) Numantine War (-142--132) First Servile War (-134--131) Servile Wars (-134--70) Cimbrian War (-112--100) Jugurthine War (-110--104) Social War of 91-87 BCE (-90--87) First Mithridatic War (-88--84) Mithridatic Wars (-87--62) Second Mithridatic War (-82--80) Third Mithridatic War (-72--62) Third Servile War (-72--70) Roman–Parthian Wars (-65-217) Gallic War (-57--50) Roman–Persian Wars (-53-628) Caesar's Civil War (-48--44) Liberators' Civil War (-42--41) Perusine War (-40--39) Final War of the Roman Republic (-31--29) Cantabrian Wars (-28--18) Great Illyrian Revolt (6-9) Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 (58-63) Jewish–Roman Wars (66-135) Year of the Four Emperors (68-69) Trajan's Dacian Wars (101-106) Marcomannic Wars (166-180) Yellow Turban Rebellion (184-205) Illyro-Roman Wars (229-167) War of the Eight Princes (291-306) Gothic War of 376–382 (376-382) Isaurian War (492-497) Basus War (494-534) Anastasian War (502-506) Iberian War (526-532) Vandalic War (533-534) Gothic War of 535–554 (535-554) Lazic War (541-562) Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591 (572-591) Goguryeo–Sui War (598-614) Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628 (602-628) Arab–Byzantine wars (629-1050) Ridda Wars (632-633) Muslim conquest of Persia (633-654) Muslim conquest of the Levant (633-640) Arab conquest of Armenia (642-744) Arab–Khazar Wars (642-799) Goguryeo–Tang War (645-668) Muslim conquest of the Maghreb (647-709) First Fitna (656-661) Umayyad campaigns in India (664-740) Jinshin War (672) Muslim conquest of Transoxiana (673-751) Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars (680-1355) Umayyad conquest of Hispania (711-726) Reconquista (733-1492) Third Fitna (744-747) Saxon Wars (772-804) Fourth Fitna (811-819) Anarchy at Samarra (861-870) Zanj Rebellion (869-883) Rus'–Byzantine War of 941–944 (941-944) Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria (967-971) Byzantine–Norman Wars (1039-1189) Byzantine–Seljuq Wars (1048-1308) Zenkunen War (1051-1063) Crusades (1095-1291) First Crusade (1096-1099) People's Crusade (1096) Swedish–Novgorodian Wars (1101-1300) Jurchen campaigns against the Song dynasty (1125-1300) The Anarchy (1135-1154) Second Crusade (1147-1149) Hōgen rebellion (1156) Heiji rebellion (1160) Genpei War (1180-1185) Third Crusade (1189-1192) Crusade of 1197 (1197-1198) Livonian Crusade (1198) War of the Antiochene Succession (1201-1219) Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) Mongol invasion of China (1205-1279) Mongol invasions and conquests (1206-1337) Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty (1211-1234) Fifth Crusade (1213-1221) First Barons' War (1215-1217) Mongol invasion of Central Asia (1216-1221) Prussian Crusade (1217-1274) Mongol invasion of Khwarazmian Empire and Eastern Iran (1219-1221) Jōkyū War (1221) Sixth Crusade (1228-1229) Barons' Crusade (1239-1241) Mongol invasion of Poland (1240-1241) Mongol conquest of Anatolia (1241-1335) Seventh Crusade (1248-1254) Venetian–Genoese Wars (1256-1381) War of Saint Sabas (1256-1270) Toluid Civil War (1260-1264) Scottish–Norwegian War (1262-1266) Second Barons' War (1264-1267) Byzantine–Ottoman wars (1265-1479) Eighth Crusade (1270) Ninth Crusade (1271-1272) War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282-1302) Aragonese Crusade (1283-1286) Lithuanian Crusade (1283-1410) First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1328) Byzantine Civil War of 1321–1328 (1321-1328) War of the Bucket (1325-1326) Genkō War (1331-1333) Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) Galicia–Volhynia Wars (1340-1392) Byzantine Civil War of 1341–1347 (1341-1347) War of the Breton Succession (1341-1365) Smyrniote crusades (1343-1351) Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars (1345-1393) Hook and Cod Wars (1350-1490) Castilian Civil War (1351-1369) Ottoman Wars in Europe (1354-1683) War of the Two Peters (1356-1369) Alexandrian Crusade (1365) Ottoman–Hungarian Wars (1366-1526) Savoyard crusade (1366-1367) Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379 (1373-1379) War of Chioggia (1378-1381) 1383–1385 Portuguese Interregnum (1383-1385) Lithuanian Civil War of 1389–92 (1389-1392) Barbary Crusade (1390) Ottoman–Venetian Wars (1396-1718) Jingnan Campaign (1399-1402) Ottoman Interregnum (1402-1413) Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435) Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411) Hunger War (1414) Hussite Wars (1419-1434) Lithuanian Civil War of 1432–1438 (1432-1438) Old Zürich War (1440-1446) Albanian–Venetian War (1447-1448) Flower War (1454-1519) Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466) Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) First Ottoman–Venetian War (1463-1479) Ōnin War (1467-1477) Burgundian Wars (1474-1477) War of the Castilian Succession (1475-1479) Mad War (1485-1488) Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars (1487-1583) Italian War of 1494–1495 (1494-1495) Italian Wars (1494-1559) Russo-Swedish War of 1495–1497 (1495-1497) Italian Wars of 1499–1504 (1499-1504) Second Ottoman–Venetian War (1499-1503) Swabian War (1499) War of the Succession of Landshut (1503-1505) Crimean-Russian Wars (1507-1572) War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516) Ottoman–Persian Wars (1514-1823) Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–17 (1516-1517) Revolt of the Comuneros (1520-1522) Italian War of 1521–1526 (1521-1526) Swedish War of Liberation (1521-1523) Knights' War (1522-1523) European Wars of Religion (1524-1697) Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526-1568) Ottoman–Habsburg Wars (1526-1791) War of the League of Cognac (1526-1530) Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528 (1527-1528) Ethiopian–Adal War (1529-1543) Inca Civil War (1529-1532) Ottoman-Safavid War (1532-1555) Count's Feud (1534-1536) Italian War of 1536–1538 (1536-1538) Third Ottoman–Venetian War (1537-1540) Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations (1538-1718) Italian War of 1542–46 Un penesote (1542-1546) Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) Italian War of 1551–1559 (1551-1559) Russo-Swedish War of 1554–1557 (1554-1557) Livonian War (1558-1583) French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) Northern Seven Years' War (1563-1570) Dutch Revolt (1568-1648) Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) First Russo-Turkish War (1568-1570) Russo-Turkish Wars (1568-1918) Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573 (1570-1573) Ottoman–Safavid War (1578-1590) Colonization of Siberia (1580-1700) Cologne War (1583-1588) Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) War of the Three Henrys (1587-1589) Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595 (1590-1595) Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) Long War (1593-1606) Nine Years' War (1593-1603) Polish–Swedish War of 1600-1629 (1600-1629) Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11 (1600-1611) Dutch–Portuguese War (1601-1661) Ottoman–Safavid War (1603-1618) Polish–Muscovite War (1605-1618) American Indian Wars (1609-1924) Beaver Wars (1609-1701) Invasion of Ryukyu (1609) War of the Jülich Succession (1609-1614) Ingrian War (1610-1617) Kalmar War (1611-1613) Uskok War (1615-1617) transition from Ming to Qing (1616-1683) Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) Polish–Ottoman War of 1620–1621 (1620-1621) Ottoman–Safavid War (1623-1639) Anglo-Spanish War of 1625–1630 (1625-1630) Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629 (1626-1629) War of the Mantuan Succession (1628-1631) Smolensk War (1632-1634) Polish–Ottoman War of 1633–34 (1633-1634) Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) Pequot War (1636-1638) Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1638-1651) Bishops' Wars (1639-1640) Portuguese Restoration War (1640-1668) Irish Confederate Wars (1641-1653) English Civil War (1642-1651) First English Civil War (1642-1646) Torstenson War (1643-1645) Cretan War of 1645-1669 (1645-1669) Fronde (1648-1653) Third English Civil War (1649-1651) Russo-Persian War of 1651–53 (1651-1653) Russo-Persian Wars (1651-1828) Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1784) First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654) Anglo-Spanish War (1654-1660) Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) Deluge (1655-1660) Second Northern War (1655-1660) Russo-Swedish War of 1656–58 (1656-1658) Dano-Swedish War (1657-1658) Austro-Turkish War of 1663–1664 (1663-1664) Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666-1671) War of Devolution (1667-1668) Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678) Polish–Ottoman War of 1672–1676 (1672-1676) Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674) King Philip's War (1675-1678) Scanian War (1675-1679) Second Russo-Turkish War (1676-1681) Great Turkish War (1683-1699) Polish–Ottoman War of 1683–99 (1683-1699) War of the Reunions (1683-1684) Morean War (1684-1699) Third Russo-Turkish War (1686-1700) Dzungar–Qing War (1688-1758) French and Indian Wars (1688-1763) King William's War (1688-1697) Nine Years' War (1688-1697) Second Hundred Years' War (1688-1815) Williamite War in Ireland (1689-1691) Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War (1714-1718) Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718 (1716-1718) War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720) Father Rale's War (1722-1725) Russo-Persian War of 1722–23 (1722-1723) Anglo-Spanish War of 1727–1729 (1727-1729) Ottoman–Persian War of 1730–1735 (1730-1735) War of the Polish Succession (1733-1735) Fifth Russo-Turkish War (1736-1739) War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) First Silesian War (1740-1742) Silesian Wars (1740-1763) War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743 (1741-1743) King George's War (1744-1748) Second Silesian War (1744-1745) Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745-1746) Carnatic Wars (1746-1763) French and Indian War (1754-1763) Guaraní War (1754-1756) Seven Years' War (1756-1763) Caucasian War (1763-1864) Pontiac's War (1763-1765) Russian–Circassian War (1763-1864) Burmese–Siamese War of 1765–1767 (1765-1767) Sino-Burmese War (1765-1769) Anglo-Mysore wars (1767-1799) First Anglo-Mysore War (1767-1769) Sixth Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) Danish–Algerian War (1769-1772) First Rohilla War (1773-1774) Dunmore's War (1774) American Revolution (1775–1783) First Anglo-Maratha War (1775-1782) Ottoman–Persian War (1775-1776) Cherokee–American wars (1776-1794) Spanish–Portuguese War of 1776-1777 (1776-1777) Anglo-French War of 1778–1783 (1778-1783) War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779) Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783) (1779-1783) Xhosa Wars (1779-1879) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784) Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784) Burmese–Siamese War of 1785–86 (1785-1786) Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) Prussian invasion of Holland (1787) Seventh Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 (1788-1791) Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 (1788-1790) Sino-Nepalese War (1788-1789) Theater War (1788-1789) Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-1792) Coalition Wars (1792-1815) French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) Polish–Russian War of 1792 (1792) War of the First Coalition (1792-1797) War in the Vendée (1793-1796) War of the Pyrenees (1793-1795) Australian frontier wars (1794-1899) Chouannerie (1794-1800) Anglo-Spanish War (1796-1808) (1796-1808) Italian Campaign of 1796-1797 (1796-1797) Persian Expedition of 1796 (1796) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799) Peasants' War (1798) Quasi-War (1798-1800) War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802) War of the South (1799-1800) Mexican War of Independence (1800-1821) Barbary Wars (1801-1815) English Wars (1801-1814) First Barbary War (1801-1805) War of the Oranges (1801) Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) Padri War (1803-1837) Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803-1805) Russo-Persian War of 1804–13 (1804-1813) Franco-Swedish War (1805-1810) War of the Third Coalition (1805-1806) Eighth Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812) War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807) Anglo-Russian War (1807-1812) Anglo-Turkish War (1807-1809) Gunboat War (1807-1814) Musket Wars (1807-1842) Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 (1808-1809) Finnish War (1808-1809) Peninsular War (1808-1814) Spanish American wars of independence (1808-1833) Bolivian War of Independence (1809-1825) War of the Fifth Coalition (1809) Anglo-Swedish War (1810-1812) Argentine War of Independence (1810-1816) Colombian War of Independence (1810-1825) Tecumseh's War (1810-1813) Venezuelan War of Independence (1810-1823) Egyptian–Wahhabi War (1811-1818) French invasion of Russia (1812) War of 1812 (1812–1815) Creek War (1813-1814) War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814) Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-1816) Argentine Civil Wars (1814-1880) Swedish-Norwegian War 1814 (1814) Neapolitan War (1815) Second Barbary War (1815) Portuguese Conquest of the Banda Oriental (1816-1820) Seminole Wars (1816-1858) Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818) Black War (1820-1832) Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820-1823) Texas–Indian Wars (1820-1882) Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) Ottoman–Persian War of 1821–23 (1821-1823) Peruvian War of Independence (1821-1824) Brazilian War of Independence (1822-1824) Anglo-Ashanti wars (1823-1900) Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 (1823-1825) Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824-1886) First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826) Cisplatine War (1825-1828) Java War of 1825-1830 (1825-1830) Russo-Persian War of 1826–28 (1826-1828) Chilean War of Independence (1827) War of the Aggrieved (1827) Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828-1829) Liberal Wars (1828-1834) Ninth Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) November Uprising (1830-1831) First Egyptian-Ottoman War (1831-1833) Siamese–Vietnamese War of 1831-1834 (1831-1834) Black Hawk War (1832) Carlist Wars (1833-1876) First Carlist War (1833-1840) Farroupilha Revolution (1835-1845) Second Seminole War (1835-1842) Texas Revolution (1835-1836) Toledo War (1835-1836) War of the Confederation (1836-1839) Kenesary Kasymov's Uprising (1837-1847) Aroostook War (1838-1839) Pastry War (1838-1839) First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842) First Opium War (1839-1842) Opium Wars (1839-1860) Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839-1841) Uruguayan Civil War (1839-1851) Siamese–Vietnamese War of 1841–1845 (1841-1845) Sino-Sikh War (1841-1842) Franco-Moroccan War (1844) War of Dominican Independence (1844-1856) First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846) Flagstaff War (1845-1846) New Zealand Wars (1845-1872) Mexican-American War (1846–1848) Second Carlist War (1846-1849) Caste War of Yucatán (1847-1901) Cayuse War (1847-1855) Sonderbund War (1847) First Italian War of Independence (1848-1849) First Schleswig War (1848-1851) Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1848-1849) Second Anglo-Sikh war (1848-1849) Apache Wars (1849-1924) Platine War (1851-1852) Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852) Crimean War (1853-1856) Sioux Wars (1854-1891) Nepalese-Tibetan War (1855-1856) Yakima War (1855-1858) Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857) Second Opium War (1856-1860) Indian Mutiny of 1857 (1857-1858) Reform War (1857-1861) Banjarmasin War (1859-1863) Hispano-Moroccan War (1859-1860) Pig War (1859) Second Italian War of Independence (1859) 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus (1860) Colombian Civil War of 1859–62 (1860-1862) American Civil War (1861–1865) Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1861–62 (1861-1862) occupation of Araucanía (1861-1883) Dakota War of 1862 (1862) Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863) Colorado War (1863-1865) Dominican Restoration War (1863-1865) Chincha Islands War (1864-1866) Overland Campaign (1864) Paraguayan War (1864-1870) Second Schleswig War (1864) Uruguayan War (1864-1865) Austro-Prussian War (1866) Fenian raids (1866-1871) Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) Third Italian War of Independence (1866) Boshin War (1868-1869) Ten Years' War (1868-1878) Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) Mokrani Revolt (1871-1872) Modoc War (1872-1873) Third Carlist War (1872-1876) Aceh War (1873-1904) Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874-1876) Red River War (1874-1875) First Serbian–Ottoman War (1876-1878) Great Sioux War of 1876 (1876-1877) Montenegrin–Ottoman War of 1876–78 (1876-1878) Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876-1878) Nez Perce War (1877) Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878) Bannock War (1878) Nauruan Civil War (1878-1888) Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) Anglo-Zulu War (1879) Little War (1879-1880) War of the Pacific (1879-1884) Basuto Gun War (1880-1881) First Boer War (1880-1881) Mahdist War (1881-1899) Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Sino-French War (1884-1885) Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885) Samoan Civil War (1886-1894) First Franco-Dahomean War (1890) Chilean Civil War of 1891 (1891) Second Franco-Dahomean War (1892-1894) 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis (1893) First Matabele War (1893-1894) War of Canudos (1893-1897) First Italo-Ethiopian War (1894-1896) First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898) Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) Philippine Revolution (1896-1898) Second Matabele War (1896-1897) Benin Expedition of 1897 (1897) Greco-Turkish War of 1897 (1897) Banana Wars (1898-1934) Second Samoan Civil War (1898-1899) Spanish-American War (1898) Philippine–American War (1899-1902) Second Boer War (1899-1902) Thousand Days' War (1899-1902) War of the Golden Stool (1900) Saudi–Rashidi War (1903-1907) Herero Wars (1904-1908) Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Majimaji War (1905-1907) French conquest of Morocco (1907-1937) Second Melillan campaign (1909) Mexican Border War (1910-1919) Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912) Rif War (1911-1927) Balkan Wars (1912-1913) First Balkan War (1912-1913) Second Balkan War (1913) Second Thirty Years' War (1914-1945) World War I (1914–1918 (1917–1918 U.S. combat role)) Zaian War (1914-1921) Jungle Movement of Gilan (1915-1920) National Protection War (1915-1919) Russian Civil War (1917-1922) Soviet-Finnish wars (1917-1944) Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921) Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917-1921) Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918-1920) Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) Finnish Civil War (1918) Franco-Turkish War (1918-1921) Georgian–Armenian War (1918) Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920) (1918-1920) Hungarian-Czechoslovak-România War (1918-1919) Hungarian–Romanian War (1918-1920) Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918-1919) Lithuanian–Soviet War (1918-1919) Polish–Ukrainian War (1918-1919) Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) Kuwait–Nejd Border War (1919-1920) Polish–Czechoslovak War (1919) Polish–Lithuanian War (1919-1920) Polish–Soviet War (1919-1921) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) Franco-Syrian War (1920) Turkish–Armenian War (1920) Vlora War (1920) Irish Civil War (1922-1923) Paraguayan Civil War of 1922–1923 (1922-1923) Klaipėda Revolt (1923) Tatarbunary Uprising (1924) Nicaraguan Civil War of 1926–1927 (1926-1927) Chinese Civil War (1927-1950) Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) (1928-1929) Castellammarese War (1930-1931) Central Plains War (1930) Sino–Tibetan War (1930-1932) Chaco War (1932-1935) Colombian-Peruvian War (1932-1933) Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1932-1939) Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-1936) Austrian Civil War (1934) Saudi–Yemeni War (1934) Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1937) Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Slovak–Hungarian War (1939) Winter War (1939-1940) World War II (1939–1945 (1941–1945 U.S. combat role)) World War II in Albania (1939-1944) Franco-Thai War (1940-1941) Greco-Italian War (1940-1941) Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Continuation War (1941-1944) Eastern Front (1941-1945) Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (1941-1942) Seven Enemy Offensives (1941-1944) World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia (1941-1944) Italian Civil War (1943-1945) Lapland War (1944-1945) Cold War (1945-1991) Indonesian National Revolution (1945-1949) Soviet–Japanese War (1945) War in southern Vietnam (1945-1946) First Indochina War (1946-1954) Greek Civil War (1946-1949) Indochina Wars (1946-1989) 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (1947-1948) 1948 Palestine war (1947-1949) Cold War (1947–1953) (1947-1953) Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 (1947-1949) Kashmir conflict (1947) Myanmar conflict (1947) Paraguayan Civil War of 1947 (1947) 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948-1949) Costa Rican Civil War (1948) Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) La Violencia (1949-1958) Korean War (1950–1953 fighting; armistice unresolved) Cold War (1953–1962) (1953-1962) Algerian War (1954-1962) Dirty War (1954-2000) Jebel Akhdar War (1954-1959) First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972) Vietnam War (1955–1975 broad period; major U.S. combat 1965–1973) Suez Crisis (1956) Ifni War (1957-1958) 1958 Lebanon crisis (1958) Laotian Civil War (1959-1975) Angolan War of Independence (1961-1974) Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991) First Kurdish–Iraqi War (1961-1970) Kachin conflict (1961) Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974) North Yemen civil war (1962-1970) Sino-Indian War (1962) Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963-1974) Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963-1966) Sand War (1963-1964) Shifta War (1963-1967) 1964 Ethiopian-Somali Border War (1964) Mozambican War of Independence (1964-1974) Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979) Chadian Civil War of 1965–1979 (1965-1979) Dominican Civil War (1965) Guatemalan Civil War (1965-1996) Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (1965) South African Border War (1966-1990) Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975) Naxalite–Maoist insurgency (1967) Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) Six-Day War (1967) (1967) War of Attrition (1967-1970) Al-Wadiah War (1969) Hundred Hour War (1969) Sino-Soviet border conflict (1969) Years of Lead (1969-1982) Black September (1970-1971) Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (1971) First Yemenite War (1972) Yom Kippur War (1973) Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991) Second Kurdish–Iraqi War (1974-1975) Angolan Civil War (1975-2002) Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Third Indochina War (1975-1991) Western Sahara War (1975-1991) Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1977-1991) Libyan–Egyptian War (1977) Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992) Ogaden War (1977-1978) Afghan Conflict (1978) Chadian–Libyan War (1978-1987) Uganda–Tanzania War (1978-1979) Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) Second Yemenite War (1979) Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988) Paquisha War (1981) Second Mafia War (1981-1984) Somaliland War of Independence (1981-1991) Ugandan Bush War (1981-1986) 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982) 1982 Lebanon War (1982-1985) Casamance conflict (1982-2014) Falklands War (1982) Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) Agacher Strip War (1985) Cold War (1985–1991) (1985-1991) Iran–Israel proxy conflict (1985) South Lebanon conflict (1985-2000) South Yemen crisis (1986) Surinamese Interior War (1986-1992) Toyota War (1986-1987) Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1987) Bougainville conflict (1988-1998) First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994) Afghan Civil War (1989-1992) (1989-1992) First Liberian Civil War (1989-1997) Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1989) Gulf War (1990–1991) Rwandan Civil War (1990-1993) Transnistria War (1990-1992) 1991-92 Georgian coup d'état (1991-1992) 1991–1992 South Ossetia War (1991-1992) Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995) Djiboutian Civil War (1991-1994) Georgian Civil War (1991-1993) Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002) Somali Civil War (1991) (1991) Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) Afghan Civil War (1992-1996) (1992-1996) Algerian Civil War (1992-2002) Croat–Bosniak War (1992-1994) Tajikistani Civil War (1992-1997) War in Abkhazia (1992-1993) Burundi Civil War (1993-2005) 1994 Summer War (1994) First Chechen War (1994-1996) Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994-1997) Cenepa War (1995) Afghan Civil War (1996-2001) (1996-2001) First Congo War (1996-1997) Nepalese Civil War (1996-2006) Republic of the Congo civil war (1997-1999) 1998 War in Abkhazia (1998) Bissau-Guinean Civil War (1998-1999) Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998-2000) Kosovo War (1998-1999) Second Congo War (1998-2003) Kargil War (1999) Second Chechen War (1999-2009) Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) War of Dagestan (1999) Six-Day War (2000) (2000) Afghanistan War (2001–2021 major U.S. war period) War on Terrorism (2001-2021) First Ivorian Civil War (2002-2007) Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002) conflict in the Niger Delta (2003) Iraq War (2003–2011 major U.S. combat/occupation period) Iraqi conflict (2003-2017) Central African Republic Bush War (2004-2007) drone strikes in Pakistan (2004) insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2004) Kivu conflict (2004) Chad–Sudan Conflict (2005-2010) 2006 Lebanon War (2006) Iraqi Civil War of 2006–2008 (2006-2008) Mexican drug war (2006) War in Somalia (2006-2009) 2007 Lebanon conflict (2007) Insurgency in Ingushetia (2007-2015) Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict (2008) Gaza War (2008–2009) (2008-2009) Russo-Georgian War (2008) Somali Civil War (2009) (2009) Arab Spring (2010-2012) Second Ivorian Civil War (2010-2011) Libyan Civil War (2011) (2011) Libyan crisis (2011) spillover of the Syrian Civil War (2011) Syrian Civil War (2011) Syrian revolution (2011-2012) War in the Sahel (2011) Arab Winter (2012-2018) Central African Republic Civil War (2012-2013) Mali War (2012) South Sudanese Civil War (2013-2020) Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017 (2014-2017) Libyan Civil War (2014-2020) (2014-2020) Russo-Ukrainian War (2014) Yemeni Civil War (2014) Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso (2015) Ngogo Chimpanzee War (2015) War in Afghanistan (2015–2021) (2015-2021) Insurgency in Northern Chad (2016) 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (2017) 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes (2018) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (2020) Myanmar Civil War (2021) full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war (2022) Gaza War (2023) Sudanese civil war (2023) 2024 Lebanon War (2024) Operation Rising Lion (2025) Twelve-Day War (2025)
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