LIST OF WARS

Wars since 1900

A list of all wars in the 20th and 21st centuries, based on data by COW, Prio and UCDP. See the source page or the FAQ for more information. See the new stats page for a summary of casualty data and nation-based stats. And get a preview of the experimental timeline of all wars since 1900. What's new? Check the update logs for 2018, 2017 and 2016 .

United States

Name of War   ∨ ∧	Years   ∨ ∧	Fatalities	Type	Mem.	Note
Afghanistan war	2001 - 2017	130,807	1	[5]	U
al-Qaida vs USA and allies	2001 - 2017	8,593	1	[12]	U
Caco Revolt	1918 - 1920	2,102	1
Congo Crisis	1960 - 1965	7,175	1	[2]
Cuba vs Partido Independiente de Color	1911 - 1911	1,050	1
Dominican Republic Coup	1965 - 1965	4,027	1
First Gulf War	1990 - 1991	23,946	1	[4]	U
Indonesia vs PRRI, Permesta and Darul Islam	1953 - 1961	33,965	1
Iraq vs US led coalition	2003 - 2003	7,927	1	[10]	U
Iraqi Insurgency	2004 - 2017	17,198	1	[9]	U
Korean War	1949 - 1953	995,025	1	[11]
Laos Civil War	1959 - 1973	21,500	1
Lebanese Civil War	1975 - 1990	132,518	1	[8]	U
Moro Rebellion	1913 - 1913	15,050	1
Panama Coup and US Invasion	1989 - 1989	920	1
Philippine insurrection	1899 - 1902	20,500	1
Russian Revolution and Civil War	1917 - 1922	802,225	1	[1]
Taiwan Strait Crisis	1949 - 1954	10,025	1
The Boxer Rebellion	1900 - 1900	3,003	1
Vietnam Civil War	1955 - 1964	164,923	1
Vietnam War	1965 - 1975	2,048,050	1	[7]
World War I	1914 - 1918	10,670,868	1	[12]
World War II	1939 - 1945	50,000,000	1	[36]
Yemeni Civil War	2009 - 2017	19,406	1		U

 

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