War and Peace

"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!"-- George W. Bush at his first Presidential debate

Here is a short list of all of the wars recorded in just the last century of human history:

1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War
1905 Revolution of 1905 in Russia
1911-1912 Turco-Italian War
1912-1913 Balkan Wars
1914-1918 World War I
1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland
1917-1918 Russian Revolution
1917-1920 Estonian Liberation War
1918 Finnish Civil War
1918 Georgian-Armenian War
1918-1919 Czechoslovakia - Hungary War
1918-1922 Russian Civil War
1918-1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
1918-1919 Great Poland Uprising
1919 Czechoslovak-Polish war
1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
1919 First Silesian Uprising
1919-1921 Polish-Soviet war
1919-1921 Anglo-Irish War (aka the Irish War of Independence)
1919-1922 Turkish War of Independence
1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
1920 Second Silesian Uprising
1921 Third Silesian Uprising
1922-1923 Irish Civil War
1926-1927 Northern Expedition in China
1927-1937 Chinese Civil War
1932-1935 Chaco War
1935-1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
1936-1939 Spanish Civil War
1937-1945 World War II
1941-1942 Ecuadorian-Peruvian War
1944-1949 Greek Civil War
1946-1954 First Indochina War
1947 Paraguayan Civil War
1948 Costa Rica Civil War
1947-1949 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
1948-1949 First Arab-Israeli War
1948-1960 Malayan Emergency
1950-1953 Korean War
1952-1960 Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
1954-1975 Second Indochina War
1954-1975 Vietnam War
1959-1975 Laotian Civil War
1962-1975 Secret War
1967-1975 Cambodian Civil War
1954-1962 Algerian War of Independence
1955-1972 First Sudanese Civil War
1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
1956-1959 Cuban Revolution
1957-1958 Ifni War
1960-1965 Congo Crisis
1960-1996 Guatemalan Civil War
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (CIA-sponsored invasion attempt by Cuban Nationals)
1961-1975 Angolan War of Independence
1962-1963 Sino-Indian War
1962-1966 Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
1962-1970 Yemen Civil War
1962-1975 Dhofar Rebellion
1964-1975 Mozambique's War of Independence
1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
1965-1996 Chad Civil War
1965-1966 Indonesian Civil War
1966-1988 Namibian War of Independence
1966-1979 Zimbabwean Second Chimurenga (Rhodesian Bush War)
1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War
1968-1970 War of Attrition
1969 Football War
1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict
1969-1988 The Troubles in Northern Ireland
1971 The Bangladesh Liberation War that in turn initiated the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
1974 Agacher Strip War
1974-1991 Ethiopian Civil War
1975-1989 Angolan Civil War
1975-1991 Lebanese Civil War
1975-1998 War of Indepence in East Timor
1975-1992 Mozambique's Civil War
1977-1978 Ogaden War
1977-1991 Cambodian-Vietnamese War
1978-2005 The Aceh War
1978-1988 Ugandan Civil War
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
1980-1992 El Salvador Civil War
1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War
1981 Paquisha War between Ecuador and Peru
1982 Falklands War
1982 Lebanon War
1983 Invasion of Grenada
1983-2000 Civil War in Sri Lanka
1983-2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
1984-1998 Free Papua Movement
1985 Christmas War between Mali and Burkina Faso
1989-1991 Mauritania-Senegal Border War
1989-1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
1989-1997 Liberian Civil War
1983-2002 Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
1990-1991 Gulf War
1990-1992 Rwanda Civil War
1990-1998 Tuareg Rebellion
1991-2001 Yugoslav Wars
1991 Slovenian War
1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992-1995 Bosnian War
1998-1999 Kosovo War
1991-1993 Georgian Civil War
1991-1992 South Ossetian war
1992-1994 Abkhazian War
1993 Georgian civil war, western Georgia
1991-1997 Sierra Leone Civil War
1992-1997 Tajikistan Civil War
1993-1999 Burundi Civil War
1994 Yemen Civil War
1994-1996 First Chechen War
1995 Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador
1996 Imia-Kardak crisis
1996-1997 First Congo War
1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea War, a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
1998-2002 Second Congo War one of the bloodiest recent wars, with an estimated 3.8 million dead
1999 Kargil War
1999-2003 Second Liberian Civil War

Current Wars
2001- U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
2001- Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
1964- Colombian Armed Conflict (aka Colombian Civil War, Colombian Conflict)
Late 1960s Islamic Insurgency, Southern Philippines
1975- Independence war in Cabinda, Angola
1977- Somalian Civil War
1978-2005 War in Aceh
1983- Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
1984- Free Papua Movement, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
Circa 1987- Conflict in northern Uganda
1988- Myanmar Civil War
1988- Casamance Conflict in Senegal
1988- Somalian Civil War
1989- Kashmir conflict
1990- War of Transnistria (cease-fire agreement signed 1992, unrecognized state)
1991- Georgian Civil War, Abkhazia, South Ossetia in Georgia
1991- Nagorno-Karabakh (unofficial cease-fire signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan)
1992- Afghan Civil War - tensions subsist
1992- Algerian Civil War in Algeria - tensions subsist
1993- Ethnic conflict in Nagaland, India
1994- Zapatista Rebellion in Mexico
1996- Nepal Civil War
1998- Second Congo War: the bloodiest ongoing war, with an estimated 3.8 million dead
1999- Ituri Conflict (Democratic Republic of Congo)
1999- Second Chechen War (Russia)
2000- Intifada in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories
2000- Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong
2001- Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
2001- South Thailand insurgency
2003- Conflict between Pakistan and Baloch warlords in Balochistan,Pakistan
2003- Darfur conflict, Sudan
2003- Insurgent rebellion, Iraq
2003- Iraq War
2004- Haiti rebellion
2004- Waziristan War
2005-2006 Chad-Sudan conflict
2005- Western Sahara Independence Intifada

1947 — Kashmir conflict
1950-1953 Korean War (technically still going on because there is only a ceasefire)
1964- Colombian Armed Conflict (aka Colombian Civil War, Colombian Conflict)
Late 1960s Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines
1975 - Independence War in Cabinda Angola
1983- Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka see also tamil tigers
1984- Civil war in Papua , Western New Guinea, Indonesia
1986- Lord's Resistance Army rebellion in Uganda
1988- Casamance Conflict in Senegal
1988- Somalian Civil War
1993- Ethnic conflict in Nagaland, India
1996- Nepal Civil War
1999- Ituri Conflict (Democratic Republic of Congo)
1999- Second Chechen War (Russia)
2000- Intifada in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories
2000- Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong
2001- Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
2001- South Thailand insurgency
2001- Afghanistan occupation
2003- Iraq war
2003- Conflict between Pakistan and Baloch warlords in Balochistan, Pakistan
2004- Waziristan War
2004- Darfur conflict
Chadian-Sudanese conflict and the Second Chadian Civil War, extensions of the Darfur conflict
2005- Western Sahara Independence Intifada
2005- Niger Delta conflicts


NOW TELL ME WHICH ONE OF THESE WARS ENDED ALL WARS AND BROUGHT PEACE TO THE WORLD