ERA // 1989 – 2001
Post-Cold War
36 wars · 87 battles
Timeline
1989 – 2021
36 wars · span 32 years
Wars
36 catalogued
1990–1991
Gulf War
A U.S.-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait through air power, maneuver, and broad diplomatic alignment.
10 battles · U.S. combat deaths were under 200; Iraqi military losses were far higher and disputed.
1990-1993
Rwandan Civil War
The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan…
0 battles
1990-1992
Transnistria War
The Transnistrian War was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari between pro-separatist forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and…
1 battle
1991-1992
1991-92 Georgian coup d'état
The 1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état, also known as the Tbilisi War, or the Putsch of 1991–1992, was an internal military conflict that took place in the newly independent Republic…
0 battles
1991-1992
1991–1992 South Ossetia War
The 1991–1992 South Ossetia War was fought between Georgian government forces and ethnic Georgian militias on one side and the forces of South Ossetian separatists and Russia on…
0 battles
1991-1995
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence…
25 battles
1991-1994
Djiboutian Civil War
The Djiboutian Civil War was a conflict in Djibouti, lasting from 1991 to 1994 and resulting in thousands of fatalities. The uneven power sharing between the Issas and the Afars…
0 battles
1991-1993
Georgian Civil War
The Georgian civil war of 1991–1993 lasted from 1991 to 1993 in the South Caucasian country Georgia. It began in December 1991 with the coup against the first…
1 battle
1991-2002
Sierra Leone Civil War
The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special…
1 battle
1991
Somali Civil War (1991)
The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia. It grew out of resistance to the military junta which was led by Siad Barre during the 1980s. From…
11 battles
1991-2001
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist…
0 battles
1992-1996
Afghan Civil War (1992-1996)
The 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Second Afghan Civil War, took place between 28 April 1992 — the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the…
1 battle
1992-2002
Algerian Civil War
The Algerian Civil War, known in Algeria as the Black Decade, was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 11 January 1992 to 8…
1 battle
1992-1994
Croat–Bosniak War
The Croat–Bosniak War or Croat–Muslim War was a conflict between the Bosniak-dominated Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by…
0 battles
1992-1997
Tajikistani Civil War
The Tajikistani Civil War was an armed conflict in Tajikistan that began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of…
1 battle
1992-1993
War in Abkhazia
The War in Abkhazia was fought between Georgian government and paramilitary forces, and a coalition of Abkhaz separatist forces and North Caucasian militants between 1992 and…
4 battles
1993-2005
Burundi Civil War
The Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of longstanding ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi ethnic…
0 battles
1994
1994 Summer War
The Yemeni civil war, also known as the Summer War of 1994, was a civil war fought between the two Yemeni forces of the pro-union northern and the socialist separatist southern…
0 battles
1994-1996
First Chechen War
The First Chechen War, also referred to as the First Russo-Chechen War, was a conflict between the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and the Russian Federation from 1994 to…
9 battles
1994-1997
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
The Iraqi Kurdish Civil War was a civil war that took place between rival Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan during the mid-1990s, mostly between the Patriotic Union of…
1 battle
1995
Cenepa War
The Cenepa War or Third Ecuadorian-Peruvian War, also known as the Alto Cenepa War, was a brief and localized military conflict between Ecuador and Peru, fought over control of…
0 battles
1996-2001
Afghan Civil War (1996-2001)
The 1996–2001 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Third Afghan Civil War, took place between the Taliban's conquest of Kabul and their establishing of the Islamic Emirate of…
0 battles
1996-1997
First Congo War
The First Congo War, also known as Africa's First World War, was a civil and international military conflict that lasted from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997, primarily taking…
2 battles
1996-2006
Nepalese Civil War
The Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006) was a protracted and countrywide armed conflict in the then Kingdom of Nepal between the Kingdom's rulers and the Communist Party of Nepal…
0 battles
1997-1999
Republic of the Congo civil war
The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, also known as the Second Brazzaville-Congolese Civil War, was the second of two ethnopolitical civil conflicts in the Republic of the…
0 battles
1998
1998 War in Abkhazia
The 1998 Gali clashes took place in the Gali district of Abkhazia, after ethnic Georgians launched an insurgency against the Abkhazian separatist government. The conflict is…
0 battles
1998-1999
Bissau-Guinean Civil War
The Guinea-Bissau Civil War was fought from 7 June 1998 to 10 May 1999 and was triggered by an attempted coup d'état against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira led…
0 battles
1998-2000
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, also known as the Badme War, was a major armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that took place from May 6, 1998 to June 18, 2000.
0 battles
1998-1999
Kosovo War
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY),…
7 battles
1998-2003
Second Congo War
The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War or the Great War of Africa, was a major conflict that began on 2 August 1998, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just…
0 battles
1999
Kargil War
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the…
1 battle
1999-2009
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from…
5 battles
1999-2003
Second Liberian Civil War
The Second Liberian Civil War was a civil war in the West African nation of Liberia that lasted from 1999 to 2003. The war was mainly caused by transition failures after the…
0 battles
1999
War of Dagestan
The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions, was an armed conflict that began when the Ichkerian-based Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), an…
1 battle
2000
Six-Day War (2000)
The Six-Day War was a series of armed confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan forces around the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 5 to 10 June…
0 battles
2001-2021
War on Terrorism
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global military campaign initiated by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. A…
5 battles
Famous commanders of the Post-Cold War era
12 shown
Saddam Hussein
Strategicmushir1937–2006
Iraq
5 battles ledΣ337 int
Norman Schwarzkopf
Strategicgeneral1934–2012
United States
5 battles ledΣ300 int
Khalid bin Sultan
Strategicmarshal1949–
United States
3 battles ledΣ221 int
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Strategiclieutenant general1942–2024
Iraq
4 battles ledΣ214 int
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Strategicgeneral1941–2010
Iraq
3 battles ledΣ205 int
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Strategicfield marshal1942–2020
Iraq
3 battles ledΣ203 int
Shamil Basayev
9 battles ledΣ200 int
Ante Gotovina
5 battles ledΣ196 int
Ruslan Gelayev
8 battles ledΣ156 int
Colin Powell
Strategicgeneral1937–2021
United States
2 battles ledΣ155 int
Dick Cheney
2 battles ledΣ153 int
Janko Bobetko
5 battles ledΣ150 int
Ranked by Σ battle intensity across battles led in scope. Strategic leaders (chiefs of state / supreme commanders) pinned to the top.