Wars in the Contemporary World (1950 to Present) covers wars from the Korean War (1950-1953) to ongoing wars in Syria, the Ukraine, and Libya, among others.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• A
• Achinese Rebellion
• Afghan Civil War
• al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
• Algerian-Moroccan War
• Algerian War of Independence
• Angolan Civil War
• Angolan War for Independence
• Argentine Revolt, 1951
• Argentine Revolt, 1955
• Argentine Revolts
• B
• Basque War for Independence
• Bay of Pigs invasion
• Boko Haram insurgent war
• Bolivian guerrilla war
• Bolivian National Revolution
• Bolivian Revolt, 1971
• Bosnian Civil War
• Brazilian Revolt, 1964
• Burundian Civil War, 1972
• Burundian Civil War, 1993–2005
• C
• Cambodian civil war
• Central African Republic conflict
• Ceylonese Rebellion
• Chadian Civil War
• Chilean revolt
• Colombian guerrilla war
• Congolese Civil War
• Costa Rican Rebellion
• Cuban Revolution
• Cultural Revolution in China
• Cypriot War, 1963–1964
• Cypriot War, 1974
• D
• Dirty War
• Dominican Republic Civil War
• Donbass War
• E
• Egyptian Revolution of 2011
• Ethiopian-Eritrean Guerrilla War
• Ethiopian-Somali Border War
• F
• Falklands/Malvinas War
• First Congo War
• First Libyan Civil War
• First Sudanese Civil War
• G
• Guatemalan Revolution
• Guinea-Bissauan War of Independence
• Guyanan Rebellion of 1969
• H
• Heglig Crisis
• Honduran guerrilla war
• Houthi rebellion in Yemen
• Hungarian revolt
• I
• Indo-Pakistani War, 1965
• Indo-Pakistani War, 1971
• Indonesian-Malaysian War
• Indonesian War in East Timor
• Indonesian Wars
• Iran-Iraq War
• Iranian Revolution
• Iraq War
• ISIS insurgency
• J
• Jordanian Civil War
• July 26 uprising
• K
• Kampuchean Civil War
• Kampuchean-Thai Border War
• Kivu War
• Korean War
• Kurdish conflict with Iraq and Turkey
• L
• Laotian Civil War
• Laotian Guerrilla War
• Lebanese civil war
• Lebanese civil war, 1958
• Libyan-Egyptian War
• M
• Macedonian insurgency
• Mau Mau uprising
• Mexican Drug War
• Mexican Revolt
• Mozambican civil and guerrilla wars
• Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) insurgency
• Mozambican War of Independence
• N
• Namibian War of Independence
• Nicaraguan Civil War, 1978–1979
• Nicaraguan civil war, 1982–1990
• Nigerian-Biafran War
• Nigerien Civil War
• Northern Ireland Civil War
• P
• Pakistani Civil War
• Palestinian guerrilla war
• Paraguayan Revolt, 1954
• Paraguayan Revolt, 1989
• Paraguayan Uprisings
• Peronist Revolts
• Persian Gulf War
• Peruvian guerrilla war
• Philippine guerrilla wars
• R
• Rhodesian Civil War
• Russian Federation annexation of Crimea
• Rwandan Civil War
• Rwandan genocide
• S
• Salvadoran Civil War
• Second Congo War
• Second Libyan Civil War
• Second Sudanese Civil War
• Shifta War
• siege of the Sikh Golden Temple
• Sino-Indian Border Dispute
• Sino-Vietnamese War
• Six-Day War
• Soccer War
• Somali Civil War
• South Sudanese Civil War
• South Yemen insurgency
• Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
• Spanish Saharan War
• Suez crisis
• Syrian Civil War
• T
• Taliban conquest of Afghanistan
• Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan
• Tunisian civil conflict
• Tunisian Revolution
• Tupamaros’ reign of terror
• U
• U.S. invasion of Grenada
• U.S. invasion of Panama
• Ugandan Civil War
• Ukrainian Revolution
• United States’s War on Terrorism
• uprising in Trinidad and Tobago
• V
• Venezuelan Revolt, 1958
• Vietnam War
• Vietnamese civil war
• W
• War in Darfur
• Y
• Yemenite Civil War, 1962–1970
• Yemenite Civil War, 1986
• Yemenite Revolution
• Yemenite War
• Yom Kippur War
• Z
• Zanzibar Rebellion
• Support Materials
• Chronology
• Contributors and Reviewers
• Selected Bibliography