YEAR // Cold War
1987
26 wars active · 8 battles
Wars active
26 catalogued
1945-1991 · Year 43 of 47
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western…
1946-1989 · Year 42 of 44
Indochina Wars
During the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, the Indochina wars were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1945 to 1991, by communist forces against the…
1954-2000 · Year 34 of 47
Dirty War
The Mexican Dirty War was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled…
1961-1991 · Year 27 of 31
Eritrean War of Independence
The Eritrean War of Independence was an armed conflict and insurgency aimed at achieving self-determination and independence for Eritrea from Ethiopian rule. Starting in 1961,…
1965-1996 · Year 23 of 32
Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide…
1966-1990 · Year 22 of 25
South African Border War
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict…
1974-1991 · Year 14 of 18
Ethiopian Civil War
The Ethiopian Civil War was a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government…
1975-2002 · Year 13 of 28
Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from…
1975-1990 · Year 13 of 16
Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities and led to the exodus of almost one…
1975-1991 · Year 13 of 17
Third Indochina War
The Third Indochina War was a series of interconnected military conflicts among the various communist factions over strategic influence in mainland Southeast Asia after communist…
1975-1991 · Year 13 of 17
Western Sahara War
The Western Sahara War was an armed conflict between the Sahrawi Indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara…
1977-1991 · Year 11 of 15
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict from 1978 to 1989 between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam, and their respective allies. It began in December 1978, with a…
1977-1992 · Year 11 of 16
Mozambican Civil War
The Mozambican Civil War was a civil war fought in Mozambique from 1977 to 1992 due to a combination of local strife and the polarizing effects of Cold War politics. The fighting…
1978-1987 · Closing year
Chadian–Libyan War
The Chadian–Libyan War was a series of military campaigns in Chad between 1978 and 1987, fought between Libya and its Chadian allies, and anti-Libyan Chadian groups supported by…
1979-1992 · Year 9 of 14
Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí…
1979-1989 · Year 9 of 11
Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War took place in Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 47-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the…
1980-1988 · Year 8 of 9
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. After eight years of conflict, both countries accepted a ceasefire deal brokered by the United Nations,…
1981-1991 · Year 7 of 11
Somaliland War of Independence
The Somaliland War of Independence also known as the Great Isaaq Uprising or the Isaaq Rebellion was a rebellion waged by the Somali National Movement (SNM) against the ruling…
1982-2014 · Year 6 of 33
Casamance conflict
The Casamance conflict is an ongoing low-level conflict that has been waged between the Government of Senegal and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) since…
1983-2005 · Year 5 of 23
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of…
1983-2009 · Year 5 of 27
Sri Lankan civil war
The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers…
1985-1991 · Year 3 of 7
Cold War (1985–1991)
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War. It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions…
1985-2000 · Year 3 of 16
South Lebanon conflict
The South Lebanon conflict was an armed conflict that took place in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon from 1982 or 1985 until Israel's withdrawal in 2000. Hezbollah, along with…
1986-1992 · Year 2 of 7
Surinamese Interior War
The Surinamese Civil War, also known as Surinamese Interior War, was a civil war fought in eastern Suriname between 1986 and 1992. The conflict primarily involved the Jungle…
1986-1987 · Closing year
Toyota War
The Toyota War, also known as the Great Toyota War, was the last phase of the Chadian–Libyan War which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Chad–Libya border. It takes…
1987 · Sole year
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militant religious extremist group, against the government of…
Battles
8 recorded
August 28, 1987
Battle of Aouzou
Toyota War
January 2, 1987
Battle of Fada
Chadian–Libyan War
September 5, 1987
Battle of Maaten al-Sarra
Toyota War
November 15, 1987
Brașov Rebellion
Cold War (1985–1991)
July 24, 1987
Operation Earnest Will
Iran–Iraq War
November 19, 1987
Operation Magistral
Soviet-Afghan War
August 1, 1987
Operation Prime Chance
Iran–Iraq War
February 26, 1987
Siege of Basra
Iran–Iraq War